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.
You get the government you vote for. Enjoy it in LA.
So now, California Democrat grifters will build cheap and ugly Soviet apartment blocks on some of the most desirable real estate lots in the U.S. Eventually, the slum project will fail, and even the ugly buildings will be too ricky-tick to save. They will have to be torn down and most of the infrastructure upgraded in order to attract people to that unique jut of land who can pay the price for the views. But it won't happen until a couple of generations of taxpayers have been soaked and thousands of officials get their skim off the cash flow.
When will Democrats learn that you can't legislate morality, nor social preferences, nor biology, nor thriving markets? You must respect nature and nature's God* if you want sustainability.
* Source: The Declaration of Independence
They could have gone with middle class condos and town houses but no. …..
They've already got enough voters on the payroll in those areas.
WHO PAYS THOSE RENTS/UTILITIES???
The direction is that Medicaid, TANF, etc will pay. Despite the problems in Walz’s MN, housing is a Medicaid issue to many Medicaid administrators. The homeless get sick due to poor housing. Medicaid will save money by providing housing to them..... That is the calculation of the left.
Yay! The poshes are gonna pay for their folly.
Love it, congratulations California.
LOW INCOME??????
WHO ARE THEY KIDDING?
NO INCOME===HOMELESS /Mentally challenged/ INCARCERATED/
THEY CANNOT PAY RENT—
THEY CANNOT QUALIFY FOR UTILITY SERVICES
THEY CANNOT PAY PROPERTY TAXES/TRASH PICKUP
THEY CANNOT DO MAINTENANCE
THIS IS A LIE FROM TOP TO BOTTOM
Newscum is dying to run everyone out of CA.
Just out of curiosity, how did the people in the burned area vote in the last Presidential election? or in the last Gubernatorial election? The last state legislative election?
I hate to say it but if they voted for Democrats, they are more or less reaping what they sowed.
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