Posted on 07/16/2025 7:09:20 PM PDT by george76
California Governor Gavin Newsom has unveiled a plan to build low-income housing to replace property destroyed by the January 2025 Southern California wildfires.
Newsom’s plan will put low-income housing in the heart of the rolling hills of Pacific Palisades, a highly affluent area of Los Angeles that overlooks the Santa Monica Bay.
The priority is for “geographic proximity to the fire perimeters of the Eaton, Hughes, and Palisades fires,” Newsom explained.
The California Department of Housing and Community Development’s Notice of Funding Availability for the $101 million pool details how funding will be awarded.
Included is $101 million in funding for multifamily low-incoming housing. Such projects must allocate 40% of its units for the homeless, or individuals who have spent at least 15 days in jails, hospitals, prisons, and institutions for mental illness.
Jennifer Seeger, the HCD deputy director of the Division of State Financial Assistance, stated that Newsom’s grants will make “funds more accessible to support the development of safe, fire-resilient multifamily low-income housing that will provide long-term stability, protect vulnerable populations, and contribute to a more equitable and resilient Los Angeles.”
The plan includes scoring preference for projects that are closer to the fire burn radius, have local government funding commitments, and are ready to start construction within 180 days of awarded funds.
It’s also possible to stack funding, contractors could utilize multiple programs within the grant to increase their project’s portion of grant-funded low-income housing units, which Newsom hopes will incentivize a greater supply of low-income housing to completed.
The State also released their MFSN Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA) in February 2025 providing $382 million for development of affordable multifamily rental housing, which contractors could also leverage.
Newsom has also cut back some of California’s notorious red-tape on development to expedite construction. He additionally signed an executive order to remove certain permitting barriers for building homes and schools, accelerate permit approval, as well as delaying changes to the state’s building codes.
The debris removal effort was completed earlier this month, setting a record for the fastest disaster clean-up in American history. 16,000 first responders and recovery personnel have participated in the cleanup efforts.
Rare for California projects, this effort was completed ahead of schedule.
Local officials met with Newsom to unveil a blueprint for recovery, with step-by-step plans to accelerate rebuilding. The plan proports to focus on community needs, provide financial support to “cover gaps”, and ensure critical infrastructure is in place, and undergrounding powerlines.
“By prioritizing affordable housing projects that are ready to go, these funds will accelerate household stability, climate and health outcomes in communities,” said Tomiquia Moss, secretary of the California Business, Consumer Services and Housing Agency
In the end, Newsom’s grand scheme isn’t about rebuilding, it’s about reshaping California into a socialist playground, forcing affluent communities to foot the bill for his virtue-signaling experiments.
DELAY DELAY DELAY the permitting process so BURNED OUT RESIDENTS GIVE UP and SELL THEIR PROPERTY. ALL PART OF THE PLAN..
Pacific Palisades should be RENAMED to LAHAINA 2.0.
CORRUPTIFORNIA !!!!!
Coming to YOUR neighborhood, NOT his!
Cabrini Green with an ocean view
There has never been an iota of doubt that this is the goal of the policies/strategies of resource management that the communists have been following were all about...
Lax protection...Hope for the best...
They got the best!
Lax protection...Hope for the best...
They did not get the best!
Lax protection...Hope for the best...
They got the best!
What are the employment opportunities in the area? Public transportation?
His company is going to be called, New-Scum.
The leftist narrative is “Don’t poor people deserve to live in nice areas with an ocean views and rolling, well groomed landscaping”? What they leave out is how such an attractive area will turn into an ugly, litter-strewn, crime ridden slum if you populate it with the homeless and wellfare grifters. Look at Mumblai if you want to see once attractice ocean front turned in a festering, trash laden eyesore.
Beach boys days long gone.
The second I heard newscum say right after the fire that he was going to reimagine the palisades I knew they set the fire..it’s been over seven months and they still won’t tell us the cause of the fire which is unheard of it’s because they set the fire just like they did in LaHaina Hawaii if you can’t buy them out burn them out..my cousins house survived the palisades fire but he hasn’t been back since it smells moldy inside and he doesn’t think it’s safe he won’t be going back will either sell it or rent it out
This is the greatest idea I’ve ever heard of. It’s better then the Theory of Relativity.
Wonder if Newscum’s donors will be heavily invested or awarded construction contracts for the Wetbacks by the Sea Ghetto.
Not to worry. Even if some of the libs who lived there wise up, with the California jungle primary system, only to libs’ names with appear on the general election ballot for governor next year. So our rulers can do anything they want without fear
“Virtue-signaling experiments” is about hurting the middle class. Billionaires are largely liberal. The poor, they think, can be bought off using OPP. It’s that pesky middle class, with its revolting “pull yourself up by your bootstraps” attitude, who are the real enemy. These people don’t obey. When the producers of housing units are operating under the domination of the ruling class, they won’t be incentivized to produce affordable housing. Only the very rich and very poor will be left — just like Newsom & Co. like it.
There needs to be a federal investigation into this corruption. They set it all up to burn. The people were right. Lives were lost.
Commiefornia deserves what they voted for.
Starting off with used shipping containers the Chinese left.
Democrats there rich enough to rebuild, or did not have their house burn will be thrilled.
Loquerious and his brothers partying next to your multi million dollar house in their new taxpayer built crib.
I’m curious — who owned/owns the land on which these projects are going to be built? I’d imagine this was public land of some kind before, because I don’t think eminent domain would have happened that quickly.
If I lost my house in that area, I would cash out with the insurance company, sell the property and move to another state.
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