Zaydee Sanchez

Jan 21, 2025 | mansionglobal.com | Cameron McWhirter |Kailyn Rhone |Zaydee Sanchez

ALTADENA, Calif.—In a time of declining Black homeownership in California, Altadena stood out as an exception. Since the 1960s, Black families have settled in this slice of the San Gabriel Valley, building a community around churches, schools, restaurants and other small businesses. Some 81% of Black households in Altadena own homes, compared with 32% across Los Angeles County. Median home values for Altadena’s Black households were $961,000 in 2023, compared with $677,700 countywide.

Jan 14, 2025 | theafricanmirror.africa | Zaydee Sanchez |Jessica Kutz

THE Eaton Fire devastated the unincorporated Los Angeles suburb of Altadena, reducing homes to rubble and scattering families. As of press time, the fire had burned over 14,000 acres. In Altadena, a historically Black community, it has killed at least 17 people and destroyed thousands of structures — homes, churches, businesses, and schools. During the civil rights movement, Altadena was one of the few places offering home loans to Black people.

Jan 14, 2025 | 19thnews.org | Zaydee Sanchez |Jessica Kutz

Published The Eaton Fire devastated the unincorporated Los Angeles suburb of Altadena, reducing homes to rubble and scattering families. As of press time, the fire had burned over 14,000 acres. In Altadena, a historically Black community, it has killed at least 17 people and destroyed thousands of structures — homes, churches, businesses, schools. During the civil rights movement, Altadena was one of the few places offering home loans to Black people.

Jan 14, 2025 | yahoo.com | Zaydee Sanchez |Jessica Kutz

The Eaton Fire devastated the unincorporated Los Angeles suburb of Altadena, reducing homes to rubble and scattering families. As of press time, the fire had burned over 14,000 acres. In Altadena, a historically Black community, it has killed at least 17 people and destroyed thousands of structures — homes, churches, businesses, schools. During the civil rights movement, Altadena was one of the few places offering home loans to Black people.

Nov 26, 2024 | propublica.org | Melissa Sanchez |Mica Rosenberg |Anjeanette Damon |Zaydee Sanchez

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. At first, she didn’t think much about the Nicaraguan asylum-seekers who began moving into town a few years ago. Rosa was an immigrant too, one of the many undocumented Mexican immigrants who’d settled nearly 30 years ago in Whitewater, a small university town in southeast Wisconsin.