Samara installs its first factory-built home in Los Angeles rebuild effort

Samara, the factory-built ADU company co-founded by US chief design officer Joe Gebbia, has installed the first of a series of units in Los Angeles on the site of a home that burned down in the 2025 Los Angeles wildfires.

Last Thursday, Samara lowered a factory-built home into concrete foundations in Altadena, one of the areas most affected by the wildfires in January 2026 that destroyed more than 16,000 buildings across the city and county.

Samara worked with non-profit Steadfast LA to build the two-bedroom...