Turning Lessons into Action: Building the Future of Resilient Recovery
Eighteen months after the Eaton and Palisades fires, Los Angeles is still navigating one of the most complex rebuilding efforts in the country. Survivors and communities continue to face insurance claims, financing gaps, permitting, design and construction decisions, and the many realities of recovery. At the same time, residents are organizing their communities, builders and designers are developing new approaches, and leaders across government, philanthropy, finance, insurance, and recovery are working to find a better way forward.
The Rebuilding with Resilience Summit: Lessons into Action brought many of these people together around a simple question: How do we turn what we have learned from recovery into action? Rather than simply cataloging what is not working, the Summit focused on what comes next: how to connect the expertise and resources already present in Los Angeles and turn them into practical tools, partnerships, policies, and systems that make resilient rebuilding easier, more accessible, and more achievable.
Four major takeaways emerged: resilient rebuilding requires all of us; we need to move from ideas to implementation; collaboration is the infrastructure for a resilient rebuild; and the work continues. Together, these themes point to a broader opportunity for Los Angeles: to use this recovery not simply to rebuild what was lost, but to strengthen the relationships, systems, policies, and practices that will shape how communities recover from disasters in the future.
The Summit was grounded in both urgency and possibility. Read the full report to explore the challenges, opportunities, and priorities that emerged from the conversation, and how we can turn the lessons of this recovery into a more coordinated and resilient rebuilding agenda for Los Angeles.
