It costs roughly $20,000 to grease the palms of the City to get rebuilding permits, but residents were promised by the Mayor that these fees would be waived. This is for a fire that the CITY itself caused through negligence and incompetence.
They burned the entire place down, and now you’ll have to fork over $20K for the privilege of rebuilding your life. This is a shakedown, but the L.A. City Council has been operating this way with no oversight for decades. How many of their members have had to resign in disgrace after fraud accusations?