Kai Ryssdal
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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Actually, 15 houses on the street are all gone.
But a woman named Ellen, who's our block captain, gets us together every six weeks in a Pasadena park.
And it pushes us forward to get rebuilt.
If we had had this conversation in December before the holidays...
You know, it was kind of long faces in the household.
We didn't have permits nine months in.
We couldn't find a contractor that, you know, aligned with any kind of sense of reality.
You know, they're all good-hearted, I guess.
It cost $400 a square foot to build a house the day before the fire in the San Gabriel Valley, about.
Um, we were getting quotes in like nine 50 a square foot.
Even if you could borrow to get that money, do you want to spend $2 million for a tiny house?
Our house is going to be tiny.