Why these wildfire victims wish their houses had burned down

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In Santa Rosa, California, what's left of a mobile home park is still desolate after a 2017 wildfire. The former residents with homes still standing aren't allowed to live there, but they have also had trouble getting insurance money. Karla Carballo-Torres and Lorin Eleni Gill of UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism report.

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