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LAist reported on pushback from some Altadena residents against out-of-town developers seeking to build dense, more affordable housing in the town's burned areas, which had previously been single-family neighborhoods. Recovering and rebuilding after a traumatic event like a large-scale fire can cause friction within communities, says Megan Mullin, a public policy professor at UCLA. “There can be a tension between what individuals and households need for their own recovery and the vision that a community has for what it wants to be in the future.” Read more about UCLA in today’s CBS Mornings, NPR’s “1A” and others.