Overview
- Vigils, rallies and a survivor news conference marked the anniversary, with flags at half-staff statewide and speakers demanding transparency, housing help and faster aid.
- Official dashboards show measurable but limited progress: Los Angeles has issued 1,448 rebuilding permits for 689 addresses in the Palisades area, the county has issued 1,192 of 2,904 applications, about 440 homes have begun construction and only a handful are complete.
- Community surveys report persistent hardship, with roughly 70% of survivors still displaced, nearly half draining significant savings and about four in ten taking on new debt.
- Accountability fights continue as the Justice Department sues Southern California Edison over the Eaton Fire, the utility offers settlements and acknowledges its equipment likely started the blaze, and Mayor Karen Bass denies altering the fire department’s after-action report.
- California leaders renewed appeals for federal disaster aid, with the bipartisan delegation urging President Donald Trump to release tens of billions more after only about $6 billion of roughly $33–40 billion requested has been approved.