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Rick Caruso: Accelerating LA’s Recovery & Restoring Trust
The Planning Report shares a candid and timely interview with Rick Caruso, who reflects on lessons from decades of community-centered development and elaborates on the work he’s undertaken to assist LA’s wildfire recovery. Drawing from his post-disaster initiative, Steadfast LA, Caruso—the founder and Executive Chairman of Caruso®, one of the largest and most admired privately held real estate companies in the US—emphasizes the urgent need for local and state action to accelerate recovery, restore trust, and deliver a solution-oriented path forward for LA.