As Tropical Storm Rachel battered Long Beach, city leaders tapped emergency reserves to patch private bulkheads, leaving displaced renters and broken budgets to shoulder the cost of coastal collapse.
By Imani Sutton ·
Mayor Rex Richardson is using emergency reserves for temporary fixes after Tropical Storm Rachel, a reactive strategy that risks public services to protect multimillion-dollar oceanfront properties.
By Maya Ellison ·
Long Beach ordered evacuations on the Peninsula after storm swells flooded homes, exposing a municipal government that relies on sandbags rather than repairing its broken breakwater.
By Daniel Okafor ·