The building continued with pricey hillside homes going up in what would become the cities of Rancho Palos Verdes and Rolling Hills. So did the landslides, which, before the recent crisis, were moving parts of the peninsula up to 8.5 inches each year.

Residents have been forced to decide whether to move or stay as an unrelenting landside forces power and gas shutoffs.

Los Angeles County Supervisor Janice Hahn's office provided $5 million in landslide relief funding. A little over half of that is going to homeowners – up to $10,000 to each affected property owner.

Rancho Palos Verdes allocates $10,000 grants for residents dealing with damage and utility loss due to land movement. The city also will prepare for rain.

Power was shut off to an additional 105 homes due to worsening landslides in a Rancho Palos Verdes neighborhood.

Residents of Rancho Palos Verdes are looking to the scientific community for help in understanding the slow-moving landslides that are destroying their community.

Officials still know little about the extent of the Portuguese Bend land movement on the Palos Verdes Peninsula, leaving residents in a torturous limbo.

The Rancho Palos Verdes City Council has approved $5 million to provide assistance to homeowners being affected by landslides.

The money, from a $5 million grant from LA County Supervisor Janice Hahn, could cover alternative energy sources, temporary housing and home hardening efforts.

Thanks to $5 million from county Supervisor Janice Hahn’s office, 280 eligible homeowners will get $10,000 each.