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Kevin Coleman and his family were devastated after they lost their two houses to the July 2018 West Fire.

The family would always get overwhelmed with emotions whenever they visit the piece of land in Alpine which once had their home on it.

“Disappointing, heartache, anxiety, stress, how do you rebuild?” Kevin says.

The remnants of the Colemans’ two houses can still be found on the 22-acre parcel. Meanwhile, the family is forced to temporarily live in someone else’s place.

“We’ve exhausted the little bit of insurance money that we got to do the debris removal, the cleanup,” a dejected Kevin explained.

“We had to take care of trees and all the damage on the property.”

The West Fire burnt around 60 homes to ashes, and a number of them haven’t yet been built again.

Out of desperation, Kevin’s wife Monica called the contractors she previously worked with to look for a potential solution for their housing tragedy.

She finally found a solution in a storage yard near San Diego’s Oak Park.

The city administration had been storing a historic home in the yard since a 2014 settlement agreement with The Academy of Our Lady of Peace.

By removing two historic homes from Normal Heights, the city provided space for the school’s expansion as per the settlement deal.

One of the two homes was still there in the yard, and the city administration agreed to give it to Kevin and his family for just $1.

However, the Colemans have been contractually bonded to keep the house in its historic character.

“I was very shocked, and bawled my eyes out when they said, we’re going to sell you this house for a dollar,” Monica recalled.

But the next steps are still very costly.

Quoting a contractor, Kevin says it will cost them $90,000 in labor to make the house habitable, and a whopping $32,000 to move it to their land in Alpine.