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.
This is it, what the left does. Tare down everything, so that they can get thier utopia. That’s why we have to suck up disapiiments and foccus 100npercent on crushing the left.
Most of those subways in Moscow, at least, serve a couple purposes.
In many stations, they have hidden blast doors. There is also hidden storage. They have special ventilation.
They are very deep underground.
They were built for public transportation and nuclear war.
just as predicted by several FReepers!
yesterday’s conspiracies are today’s reality!
i’d just love to see some billionaire jump in and offer a decent price to all lot owners who want to sell and then just sit on the lots as a long term investment ...
Precisely Marxist-Leninist, precisely.
Yes, Marxism-Leninism, and Gov. Nuisance knows it.
STATE WILL HAVE TO SELF INSURE IT.
NO STANDARD INSURANCE WILL COVER THIS
40% OCCUPIED BY HOMELESS & MENTALLY ILL.
WHO PAYS THOSE RENTS/UTILITIES???
Here on Free Republic while the fires were still burning many predicted this. It is just what Marxist do, it is in their nature.
To Marxists truth is what they say it is and subject to daily revisions courtesy of the memory hole and the “Ministry of Truth.” George Orwell (1984) warned us. We did not listen.
HOMELESS & MENTAL CASES ARE NOT SUITABLE EMPLOYEES
WAIT UNTIL BABS STREISAND HEARS ALL THIS....
it is amazing just how much damage these DNC types are inflicting on America
(and it is amazing how much they get away with, too)
putting a welfare project in Pacific Palisades is like tossing cow turds in the wedding reception punch bowl
No more taxes coming in just tax dollars going out
ok...you and me ? back to re-education camp.
My shocked face....😴😴😴
That might not be possible. There were news reports at the time of the fire saying that insurance companies had re-evaluated their coverage in those parts and had simply cancelled it. This had occurred a few months before the fire.
Perhaps the insurance companies either had inside knowledge or were in on the scam.
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.
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Not only this, but there is not enough gold in Fort Knox to fund the removal of all the foundations of the destroyed homes, driveways, etc. Newsome’s motto should be, “Build Back Ugly”. Top down rebuilding by a politician with no experience in building anything.
That old slut’s house is way up the coast from the burned area.
Oceanfront Malibu, not Pacific Palisades.
Will be interesting to see what they do with all the housed right on the breach that burned.
The brothers are not much into the ocean, so low income multifamily housing there might not be good idea.
Better to just make parking lots to let the people enjoy the beach that had been closed to them for so long.
LOL the homeys are coming
Just the types of people anyone would want as neighbors!
“Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes TODAY is the day: California senate has passed SB549 granting LA county authority to purchase fire destroyed lots for minimal cost
Today that bill is being heard in the local assembly, if passed The Pacific Palisades will be re-zoned and stolen by Gavin Newsom and Karen Bass
“If this passes, a lot of land grab can actually happen. This bill creates a resilient Rebuilding authority or RRA which is unelected board and it’s run by a state picked administrator.
So that means that us locals are not going to be able to vote for whoever runs this. It will be picked by the state government. This RRA authority can actually buy burned lots at fair value. It can hold them and resell them in the future or can also swap them into local projects. Now if they decide to swap those into public projects, 40% of those have to be for low income housing.
Now if this passes, the RRA then can completely change the zoning for the Pacific Palisades. So that means that the single family streets can now turn into low income high density apartments in Pacific Palisades. So I’m afraid to say that I don’t think if this passes, Pacific Palisades will never be the same. Now what do you guys think?””
You spend millions to buy your home there and Newsom and Bass put these types of people next to you!
FTA: 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.
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