Real Estate Vultures Eye Middle-Class Enclave of Ravaged LA
- Speculators call home owners, agents in the wake of the fires
- Neighborhood northeast of LA was a haven for Black families
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Danielle Neal is a fourth-generation resident of Altadena who saw the house she grew up in and the home she rented burn down in the wildfires that swept through Los Angeles County.
Neal, 30, said her aunt and uncle, who lived in the family home, have already been deluged by parties looking to purchase the still smoldering ruins at a steep discount.