As Los Angeles Rebuilds, a Surge of Experimentation

Across the city’s fire zones, there’s a surge of experimentation — collective rebuilding, catalog homes and new technologies that are safe and reduce costs.An empty home lot overlooking the Pacific after the fires, one of 16,000 homes destroyed. Challenges to rebuilding are stiff: labor shortages, tariff-induced cost spikes, lower-than-expected insurance payouts, and slow-moving bureaucracies. Cue the innovators.