Published on January 15th, 2026

Published on January 12th, 2026

Juanita and her sisters were born in Mexico but raised in Goleta, California by their single mother. She remembers at an early age people throwing eggs at their windows. It wasn’t until she was older that she realized this happened because they were Mexican and not wanted in the neighborhood. Her mother worked evenings and […]

Published on January 12th, 2026

“GMA” visits Altadena, California, where residents are trying to rebuild from their losses in the Eaton Fire.

Published on January 12th, 2026

Published on January 12th, 2026

One year after a firestorm ripped through Sue Decker’s neighborhood in the foothills of Altadena, California, her street is still a barren vista of empty lots and piles of dirt where tidy bungalows once stood. The block is hardly an outlier in Altadena, the Los Angeles-area neighborhood that went up in flames in January 2025 […]

Published on November 12th, 2025

Sha-Von and her five siblings were born and raised in Philadelphia. Later, Sha-Von moved to Georgia where she now resides and teaches at an alternative high school. She says, “Homeownership is something that I have desired for many, many years but as a single mother, often working 2-3 jobs while trying to put myself through […]

Published on November 12th, 2025

Pleshette’s journey to homeownership is a story of perseverance. She grew up in San Pedro and was primarily raised by her grandmother. From the time she was young she was working. She raised three kids on her own and did everything in her power to make sure they had a roof over their heads. That […]

Published on November 12th, 2025

Brittney was born and raised in the “DMV” also known as the Washington D.C. metro area. She has worked hard and built up her savings to put herself in a position to purchase her first home for her and her young son. With the help of Greenline, Brittney was recently able to purchase her first […]

Published on November 3rd, 2025

Natural disasters such as the devastating fires that ignited in the Los Angeles area on January 7, 2025 do not intend to discriminate on the basis of race or class. Their impacts, however, are revealing about systemic inequities. In the months since the fires were contained, we know that recovery and the ability to rebuild […]

Published on October 8th, 2025

The pool of buyers for empty lots is also limited by the complexity of building a home from scratch. So grassroots community efforts have worked to combat the trend of corporate buyouts. For example, the nonprofit Greenline Housing Foundation has bought lots and supplied several down payment grants to renters who lost their homes in the fire and […]