Black Homeowners Lead Charge For California’s AIR Act

Black Homeowners Lead Charge For California’s AIR Act

In 2025, while Gayle Ali and her husband were out of the country, their Altadena home was destroyed in the Eaton Fire. They changed their flights and rushed home. “We knew our house had burned down and that we lost our cars and we lost everything,” said Ali, 69, who had lived in the home with her husband, Rasheed, 71, for more than 30 years. What came next, she said, was another kind of shock. The couple had been with the same insurance company …