Extensive displacement, temporary housing funds rapidly running out, ongoing worries about contamination, a sense that the world has moved on. And yet, still, a widespread determination to rebuild. That’s the picture the latest survey of Eaton and Palisades fire survivors paints nearly a year after L.A. County’s most destructive fires.

In its third report, the nonprofit Department of Angels surveyed 2,335 people who were affected by the fires about how they’re doing nine months on. Some of the main findings include:

Roughly 8 in 10 Altadena residents and 9 in 10 Pacific Palisades residents still are not back home.

The majority of survivors are digging into their savings and taking on debt.

Temporary housing funds are running out for survivors — more than half of survivors have le

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