{"id":314680,"date":"2026-05-14T02:13:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T02:13:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/314680\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T02:13:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T02:13:16","slug":"la-fire-survivors-face-expiring-housing-aid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/314680\/","title":{"rendered":"LA Fire Survivors Face Expiring Housing Aid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About 2 in 3 fire survivors are still displaced and, as <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2026-05-07\/nearly-40-of-la-fire-survivors-face-crisis-as-temporary-housing-funds-dry-up-survey-finds\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">coverage for temporary housing disappears<\/a>, that number could get increase. That\u2019s according to the <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/static1.squarespace.com\/static\/6792c245599ed84703227b1e\/t\/69fb99d59526446388bdd51b\/1778096597336\/Department+of+Angels+Community+Voices+LA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">latest report<\/a> from Department of Angels, a nonprofit that regularly surveys survivors from both the Eaton and Palisades Fires to monitor how the recovery from the L.A. fires is going. As people continue to wait on insurance payouts and building materials get more expensive, the hope that many people had for rebuilding their homes is dwindling.<\/p>\n<p>This \u201chope gap\u201d underscores the need for the nearly $34 billion in Federal funds that California Gov. Gavin Newsom has requested. Additionally, on May 8, Newsom asked for a 12-month extension from Federal Emergency Management Agency\u2019s disaster assistance program for the fire victims. <\/p>\n<p>GUESTS: <br \/>Andrew King, Eaton Fire Survivor and Head of Community Engagement and Education for Department of Angels<br \/>Miguel Santana, President &amp; Chief Executive Officer, California Community Foundation, and co-founder of the Department of Angels with Snapchat\u2019s Evan Spiegel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"About 2 in 3 fire survivors are still displaced and, as coverage for temporary housing disappears, that number&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":314681,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[131771,1426,131770,22321,6922,6246,131772,15,74967,3288,4080,36294,5178,48,52,51,47,50,49,592,4495],"class_list":["post-314680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-andrew-king","tag-angels","tag-angelsmiguel-santana","tag-chief-executive-officer","tag-community-engagement","tag-department","tag-disaster-assistance-program","tag-education","tag-federal-emergency-management-agency","tag-fire-survivor","tag-guest","tag-head","tag-hope","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-people","tag-recovery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314680\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/314681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}