Fires put extra strain on California region's housing shortage

SANTA ROSA, Calif. - Shelly Lanning, her husband and two children are staying with her mother in Ukiah, an hour from where her home burned down the morning of Oct. 9. She's not sure where she's going to live next.

Lanning, 46, ran a day care center and her husband a catering company out of their home in Santa Rosa's Coffey Park neighborhood. Fire destroyed the entire community, including the apartment building down the street from Lanning's home, where her 23-year-old son lived. Lanning would like to find a new place that will fit her whole family, including their Labrador retriever mix, Jax. But she can't.

"We've been looking everywhere," Lanning said. "If there's anything available, they're gone in seconds."

Lanning is one of thousands