When the Eaton Fire blazed through Altadena earlier this month it took more than homes and memories — it devastated a city that has long been a haven for Black families. Pat Harvey reports.
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My prayers go out to Altadena, and everyone affected by these fires. 🙏
these black families go way back since Altadena's founding
Stay tuned for the next segment, “How Palisades hopes to preserve its white community.” Huh, actually sounds kinda racist
Newsom will force them to sell.
thanks for bringing attention to this!
Stop dividing us by race
They don’t pay tax then want the government to save them lol
Middle class is best I liken self made girls not brats
I hate the terms minority and people of color. People of Color sound oppressive.
Redlining still exists thats why you see many asian or white only communities in majority of the other cities
What about the Asian Community 😮
Heartbroken ❤
Wasn’t all of California once all Native American Indian territory?
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A bigger percentage of these black families are not going to come back and rebuild. The ones that do will take much longer to do so. The neighborhood will look less black. You'll have more white families who live there try and buy more property in addition to outsiders (capitalists).
Great Job as usual Pat.
Thank you highlighting our family story and honoring Trevor mom ❤
Preserve!!! Don't sell to Developers. Keep it Single Family Houses❤
I pray they can all rebuild ❤
They have colonized Atlanta. California is my favorite state I pray they don’t get priced out.
The African American population in Altadena went from 4% in 1960 to 43% in 1980, to 39% in 1990, to 18% in 2020, and then even lower in 2025. There must have been some gentrification and an influx of hispanic americans.
I and many of my friends used to be democrat but not anymore. I support Republican from now on. Sick of Democrats paying attention for only poor people and ruining California. Look what happend to San Francisco and what is happening in LA.. Democrat party is finished. Karen B. she must RESIGN if she jas even a drop of CONSCIENCE. Gabin Newsome too.
Why did the government let the fringe neighborhood of Altadena burn to the ground? There remained just too many housing units there that continued to qualify for the cheapest property tax rates as mandated by the State of California's 1978 Proposition 13! In one fell, who-could'a thunkit swoop and as a consequence of the ALTADENA CONFLAGRATION, more than 2/3rds of those Proposition 13 homes have burned down or otherwise unrecoverably been damaged.
When homeowners rebuild, the State of California — in backstabbing fashion — will declare all Prop' 13 covered fire rebuilds to ALL be NEW STRUCTURES. This means all new tax-standards, and that Prop' 13's 1978 tax break has suddenly become functionally extinct. All this is because the Satanic threesome of the State, the County, and the City of Pasadena conspired to ignore their fire-abatement duties, leading to the wholesale burn out of all them tax-avoiding property-owners.
Pasadena is also going to make a grab at incorporating Altadena into Pasadena as a coopted tax-base. That's the major reason it cooperated so completely with this community burn-out conspiracy. With all them condemned properties being wholly unlivable, the former residents of those homes will now be former voters of Altadena. This will make it so much cheaper for the City of Pasadena to bribe-out the remaining residents to sell cheap to the City's incorporation process.
I didn't know this.
I went to Eliot Middle school i can truly say it was a black city with the diners from 1960 and churches from the 1940's which i attended due to being what it is i had no complaints i truly pray for those who want to keep altadena the way it is i don't blame them
Fire is not a race issue. Enough already. I live here, and there are many races affected here. Stop using people's tragedy for your race propaganda. All victims need help
Stay strong