On Fire Talk: The Fires Last Time: Landlord Arson and the Reverb of Racial Capitalism
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Santa Barbara, CA, United StatesLast year's wildfires in L.A. turned a spotlight on a corner of the insurance world that typically exists in the shadows: the California FAIR plan, the state's insurer of last resort. Though it is now synonymous with wildfire risk, the FAIR plan is the byproduct of a very different conflagration: the Watts uprising of 1965. The strange career of the FAIR plan illustrates the links between the urban crisis of the late twentieth century and ...