LA wildfires displaced tens of thousands. With rents soaring, finding affordable housing will be their next challenge | CNN Business

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Martin Johnson and his fiancé, Caleigh Chapman, had spent several years restoring and renovating their home in Altadena by hand. It took only hours to lose the home and everything in it last week.

“We didn’t have a kitchen for a year and a half. We had just cooked the first dinner in the house just after Christmas,” said Johnson, who co-owns LA Woodshop, which provides woodworking spaces and lessons for people who want to do it themselves or build furniture professionally.

“We spent many nights hand-sanding doors and window frames,”

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