Welcome to the Neighborhood. It’s Sinking.

“OK, don’t step into the actual fissure. We don’t actually know how deep it goes.” In 2024, Eilen Stewart bought a house on a landslide. “Honestly, we’re priced out of a lot of the L.A. area. So when we saw this house in this amazing neighborhood — it’s safe. It’s beautiful.

It’s got amazing school districts. I mean, it just seemed like this house is half the price that it should be. Of course, that’s when we figured out that there’s a reason that the house is this price.” They paid $1.3 million for coastal Palos Verdes, Calif., even as land there was moving as much as a foot per week.

Parts of Palos Verdes have been inching toward the sea for decades, and heavy rainfall in recent years accelerated the slide, cracking foundations and destroying homes. “This is probably one of the largest active landslides with homes on it in the entire United States, if not the world.

United States, Palos Verdes, California

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