USC study explores extent of wildfires’ impacts on ‘housing insecure’

A new survey conducted out of USC’s Dornsife Center for Economic and Social Research explored the extent to which financially vulnerable people were affected by the Eaton and Palisades fires.

The study, released Thursday and which is ongoing, found that 31% of housing-insecure people experienced housing damage, displacement, or a utility disruption, compared to 24% of housing secure individuals. It also found that 11% of housing-insecure evacuees stayed in a homeless or evacuation shelter...