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2025 Los Angeles Wildfire Recovery Assistance Program

Provides support for individuals, families, and businesses affected by the 2025 Los Angeles wildfires, including financial aid, housing, mental health services, and rebuilding assistance.

211 LA Wildfire Care Coordination Program

Provides disaster response, resource navigation, and long-term recovery support for wildfire survivors in Los Angeles County, including housing, food, income assistance, and more.

Altadena Fire Recovery Assistance Program

Provides Los Angeles County resources for immediate and long-term recovery support for Altadena residents affected by the Eaton Fire.

Altadena Library Foundation Eaton Fire Free Mobile Hotspots

Provides a waitlist for free mobile hotspots to Altadena residents whose homes were destroyed or rendered uninhabitable by the Eaton Fire.

A Sense of Home LA Fire Free Furniture & Home Essentials

Helps displaced individuals and families in Los Angeles County create safe, fully furnished homes by providing essential furniture, household items, and home goods at no cost. The program supports people rebuilding after major life disruptions, including aging out of foster care, homelessness, housing instability, and disasters such as residential fires. Through community volunteers and donated furnishings, participants receive the resources needed to establish a stable home environment and move forward with dignity, healing, and long-term success.

Beacon Housing Templeton & Maycrest Eaton Fire Affordable Rental Housing

Provides affordable rental housing at Beacon Housing's Templeton and Maycrest properties in El Sereno. Those units are currently restricted to households displaced by the Eaton Fire, with household income capped at 120% of AMI based on household size. Beacon says it uses Haven Connect as its waitlist-management platform, and its Templeton and Maycrest listings say the units are currently restricted to households displaced by the Eaton Fire and that household income cannot exceed 120% AMI.

Beacon Pine Street Eaton Fire Affordable Housing

Beacon Housing’s Pine Street development in Altadena is planned to provide 14 units of affordable rental housing for very low-income families. The units are currently restricted to households displaced by the Eaton Fire, and eligible household income cannot exceed 50% of the applicable Area Median Income based on household size. Construction is currently anticipated to be completed by year-end 2026. The current public pathway is the Pine Notification List; this is not yet a general leasing application.

CalAssist California Disaster Mortgage Payment Grant

Provides eligible California homeowners whose primary residences were destroyed or deemed uninhabitable by a qualified disaster with up to one year of mortgage, HELOC, or eligible reverse-mortgage property-charge assistance paid directly to the servicer.

CalHFA Disaster Rebuilding Assistance Program - DRAP

CalHFA's $100 million Disaster Rebuilding Assistance Program (DRAP) provides two lender-delivered tools for eligible California homeowners rebuilding homes damaged/destroyed by qualified disasters: construction-loan interest-rate buydowns and a const

California 2025 LA Wildfire Insurance Contents & Living Expense Advance Payment Rights

California law provides special advance-payment rights for residential property insurance claims arising from the January 2025 Los Angeles wildfire emergency. For a covered total loss of a furnished primary dwelling, the insurer must offer a contents/personal-property payment of at least 30% of the policy limit applicable to the covered dwelling structure, up to $250,000, without requiring an itemized contents inventory. A policyholder with a covered total loss who has made an Additional Living Expense (ALE) claim may, upon request, receive an advance of at least four months of living expenses. Additional contents and ALE benefits may be recoverable under the policy after the advance-payment stage and applicable documentation requirements.

California AB 238 LA Fire Mortgage Forbearance

Requires covered mortgage lenders/servicers to provide qualifying 2025 Los Angeles firestorm borrowers experiencing wildfire-related financial hardship with statutory mortgage forbearance for up to 12 months, subject to the conditions in AB 238.

California AB 493 Insurance-Proceeds Escrow Interest

Requires qualifying mortgage lenders/servicers to pay homeowners 2% annual interest on insurance proceeds held in escrow following a covered property loss, subject to the statute. This is an account based statutory right, not a grant application. If a covered financial institution holds qualifying hazard-insurance proceeds in a loss-draft account pending repair or rebuilding of a qualifying one-to-four-family California residence, the institution must pay at least 2% simple interest per year on the funds while held, credited as required by law.

California CDTFA Disaster Penalty & Interest Relief

Allows taxpayers and businesses directly affected by a declared disaster to request extensions and relief from qualifying California sales/use tax and other CDTFA penalties or interest caused by the disaster.

California DFPI LA Fire Mortgage & Insurance-Proceeds Complaint Assistance

Provides DFPI complaint and consumer-assistance channels for wildfire-related mortgage, escrow/insurance-proceeds and other issues involving financial institutions regulated by DFPI.

California DMV Free Disaster Document & Vehicle Record Replacement

Provides no-fee disaster-related replacement and assistance for listed California DMV documents/services, including driver license/ID, registration/title, disabled-person placard, plates/stickers and certain records, for people affected by natural disasters

California DOI Residential Wildfire Claims Mediation

Offers a formal mediation process for eligible residential property insurance disputes after the consumer has first gone through the California Department of Insurance complaint process and the dispute remains unresolved.

California FAIR Plan Basic Property Insurance

Provides basic property/fire insurance as California's insurer of last resort when a consumer cannot reasonably obtain coverage in the traditional insurance market.

California Free Vital Records Replacement for LA Fire Survivors

Provides free certified copies of birth, death, marriage and dissolution-of-marriage records lost because of the Palisades, Eaton, Hurst, Lidia or Woodley fires under the January 2025 Los Angeles County emergency.

California FTB LA Wildfire Tax Penalty & Account Relief

Helps individuals and businesses affected by the January 2025 Los Angeles fires resolve disaster-related California tax account problems, including penalty notices and disaster-relief questions.California FTB continues to provide account assistance to individuals and businesses affected by the January 2025 Los Angeles County fires. The automatic disaster postponement for qualifying tax filings and payments applied to deadlines falling between January 7, 2025 and October 15, 2025, and that postponement period has ended. However, affected taxpayers who received qualifying late-filing or late-payment penalty notices related to the disaster postponement period, or who have questions about Los Angeles County disaster tax relief, may still contact FTB for assistance.

California LA Fire Rebuilding Regulatory & Permit Relief

Explains state/LA County rule-based rebuilding relief and streamlined permitting for qualifying 2025 wildfire rebuilds. Relief is project- and jurisdiction-specific, not a blanket waiver.

California LA Wildfire Disaster Loss Tax Deduction

Allows qualifying California taxpayers to deduct unreimbursed disaster losses from the January 2025 Los Angeles fires and potentially claim the loss on the disaster year or preceding tax year under California disaster-loss rules.

California Proposition 19 Wildfire Property Tax Base Transfer

Allows qualifying victims whose principal residence was substantially damaged or destroyed by a Governor-declared wildfire to transfer the property's base-year taxable value to a replacement principal residence anywhere in California.

California WIC Food & Nutrition Benefits

Provides eligible pregnant people, recent parents, breastfeeding/chestfeeding parents, and caregivers of children under age five with monthly healthy-food benefits, nutrition education, breastfeeding support, and healthcare/community referrals.

California Wildfire Settlement State Income Tax Exclusion

Allows qualifying wildfire settlement payments connected to specified California wildfire disasters to be excluded from California gross income for covered tax years, potentially reducing tax or supporting an amended-return refund.

California Wildfire Utility Bill, Deposit & Reconnection Protections

Summarizes California utility protections triggered by wildfire/disaster emergencies, including service, billing, deposit, reconnection and payment-plan protections for affected customers, depending on utility and account circumstances.