Send-hand email (Danke DB) from an LA developer...

Builder/Developer here.

If things go PERFECT from here, it'll take 20-30 YEARS to even come close to getting back what was destroyed.

Folks burned out? You'll be dead before you move back into a home here.

Collect what you can..and move out.

Please...leave your shit commie politics behind.

Side Note..The "Coastal Commission " will NEVER let Malibu Beach front be rebuilt.  I don't care if you're a Billionaire. Those homes were like pre 68 machine guns.  Once gone...gone. ( if you owned, and permit to rebuild or upgrade was impossible.  Look up Susan Sommers moved, after trying for 10 years)

Cleanup alone. Imagine disposal using "California " fucked up rules. These dumbasses will probably mandate electric bulldozer.

Put a fork in this joint..it's done. We haven't even touched on the "talent" required ( lack of) to do this type of "work".