To the editor: This recent article by Los Angeles Times loses a lot about the real history that occurs on the ground (“Unfortunately, Altadena is on sale ': developers are buying burned lots.” June 5).
Yes, some owners have sold. But many, many more have chosen to stay, and are actively organized with neighbors to rebuild Altadena with dignity, character and collective power. For example, hundreds of housing owners and more than 30 contractors have already joined the Altadena Collective, an initiative led by residents that offers personalized architectural options, construction equipment examined and reconstruction routes below the market for fire victims. And that is just one of the organizations dedicated to the reconstruction of Altadena.
This is not a pastel idealism in the sky: it is real, it is happening and is remodeling the recovery process so that it deserves coverage.
Add more than 150 non -profit organizations It began from the fires, weekly meetings attract hundreds of residents and a generalized movement to preserve the soul of Altadena, and will find a community that is doing much more to sell. We need more reports that recognize the depth and impulse of what is being built here.
Jeremy Gray, Los Angeles
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To the editor: The report by the writer Jack Flemming is perfect. The only thing that was not mentioned was that many of us in Altadena are too old to start again! The other problem is that many of us were with insufficient or not insured insurance at all.
There is a delusional group that believes that Altadena will return as the small picturesque city she was, which will never happen. It will be a new city with new people and has a better opportunity to become the new Westsis. Not all who move will return.
Norman Merino, Altadena
