Gavin Newsom Announces Funding for ‘Multifamily Low-Income Housing’ in Wake of LA Wildfires
“The funding we’re announcing today will accelerate the development of affordable multifamily rental housing so that those rebuilding their lives after this tragedy have access to a safe, affordable place to come home to.”
As people in the Los Angeles area struggle to rebuild their homes, California Governor Gavin Newsom has announced $101 million in new funding for ‘multifamily low-income housing’ in the area for ‘a more equitable and resilient Los Angeles.’
This has red flags all over it.
Back in January, comedian Adam Carolla went viral over predictions he made about what a nightmare it would be to rebuild after the fires due to the miles of progressive red tape that have grown in the state over the years.
Lots of people speculated that the fires would be used for a government land grab. If Newsom wants that speculation to grow, this is the way to do it.
With @California_HCD, we're delivering $101M to help rapidly rebuild affordable, multifamily rental housing for Angelenos displaced by the January wildfires.
We're ensuring that everyone affected by this tragedy has a safe and affordable place to come home to. pic.twitter.com/EyLAxmk518
— Governor Gavin Newsom (@CAgovernor) July 8, 2025
🔥 Translation from @GavinNewsom to English:
“After the fires I’m in large part responsible for, I’m giving a state agency a lot of taxpayer money we don’t have to built taxpayer-funded “affordable” rental housing projects in the fire zones.”
Isn’t that what we predicted? 🤔 https://t.co/nm9y16d8LE
— Houman David Hemmati, MD, PhD (@houmanhemmati) July 9, 2025
Beege Welborn commented at Hot Air:
The state’s oleaginous chief executive delivered the coup de grâce to former renters and landlords yesterday.
In a self-congratulatory moment, Newsom grandly announced his intentions to bring ‘multifamily low-income housing development’ to Pacific Palisades, Eaton, and Altadena, creating a more ‘resilient and – keyword here – equitable Los Angeles.’
Six months after the devastating Palisades and Eaton fires, California Gov. Gavin Newsom unveiled $101 million in funding Tuesday for “multifamily low-income housing development” that will “contribute to a more equitable and resilient Los Angeles.” The priority is for “geographic proximity to the fire perimeters of the Eaton, Hughes, and Palisades fires.”
Earlier this year, The Center Square broke news that California state law and a local Los Angeles ordinance require fire-destroyed rent-protected housing — which includes all apartments in the city built before October 1978 — be replaced with low-income housing. Because the affordability requirements use county-level income data, not more local incomes, definitions for “low” and “very low” income housing reflect much lower incomes than the norm for the affluent Palisades community.
“Thousands of families – from Pacific Palisades to Altadena to Malibu – are still displaced, and we owe it to them to help,” said Newsom in a statement. “The funding we’re announcing today will accelerate the development of affordable multifamily rental housing so that those rebuilding their lives after this tragedy have access to a safe, affordable place to come home to.”
This is getting a lot of attention on Twitter/X:
So the truth is coming out. @GavinNewsom who has a lot of blame for the SoCal fires is basically saying, he is going to steal tax payers money to build ghettos that people HE displaced can "Rent". It's obviously a money grab folks. Sad. This guy has got to go. https://t.co/wYWq0OkvPk
— Cartel California (@Cartel_Cal) July 9, 2025
I wanted to think it was all a conspiracy theory but here we go. . . https://t.co/kBEwu87hqF
— Jennifer Van Laar (@jenvanlaar) July 9, 2025
That single family home you had in the Palisades is now an apartment building you make too much money to qualify to live in.
Mark this post. https://t.co/OhvmefOL9U
— Queen Velvet (@TMIWITW) July 9, 2025
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and Governor Newsom need to stop their stupid and pointless war on ICE and the Trump administration and focus on helping people rebuild their homes.
As of June 17th, you’ve only issued 31 building permits. https://t.co/G5bDIcst7q https://t.co/lfYygqdD4r
— John Ekdahl (@JohnEkdahl) July 7, 2025
What’s going on with the building permits ? https://t.co/lzJIjQ7aSC
— Adam Carolla (@adamcarolla) June 15, 2025
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Same land grab is in Maui.
Quite right. It’s funny to me that the same people pushing this crap don’t seem to understand people moved to those areas in the first place to get away from the “affordable and equitable” government housing that quickly becomes a ghetto of lawlessness and decay.
This land was your land
Now it’s my land
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If it’s “affordable”, it ain’t safe.
“Martin Luther King stood for nonviolence,” says comedian Chris Rock in his live 1996 HBO special Bring the Pain. “Now what’s Martin Luther King? A street. And I don’t give a fuck where you are in America, if you on Martin Luther King Boulevard, there’s some violence going down.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqVPhKMFJTQ
And not only will all this new housing be affordable, it will be ICE-free sanctuary housing for underprivileged gang members.
I am originally from the LA metro area born in the late 50s. Me, my wife, and two sons moved out due to business in 96 to the east. California started turning bad after Reagan left as Governor.
LA city always was bad at allowing building permits. There has been issues along the Pacific Coast in the city getting permits. Mayor Bass and Gov Newsom have not let many go in the past 6 months. These are some of the richest Dem owned properties in the country and if they are converted to Public Apartments I believe there will be a big change in donors to which party.
When one reads that The 3 Federal Reserve buildings are getting a $2.5 billion dollar face lift, one must conclude this particular project or phase is small beans.
Communism.
Hmm, I was going to say this is a scene out of Dr. Zhivago where the Omar Shariff character comes home only to find his large home occupied by the poor since he really didn’t need that much space anyway.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnpATXvwWrI
AKA, Dhimmi-crat-ism.
all across the country
ONCE AGAIN lefty has used their control of the language to force us to not debate this “affordable housing” scheme
the newer sec8 hud theft now uses the following jargon:
are you against first responders?teachers? living in the areas they serve??
thats how they hide their welfare scheme disguised as patriotism
$101 million is chump change, in the context of California’s budget and how much the state has pissed away on illegal aliens and other entitlement class leeches.
I love explaining to liberals why I’m not a bad guy for wanting to have my own four walls and a yard. I, and I suspect most people who lost their houses, have zero interest in living in an apartment. Even a townhouse, I don’t want to live in. I want my own property where I can do what I want and have some distance from my neighbor’s issues. CA is taking advantage of the tragedy to push the you will own nothing and be happy.
I wonder if the Newsom/Bass handling of the LA fires and rebuilding will be the tipping point that turns the exodus of money from a stream to a river? By the way, I think that Mamdani being elected Mayor of New York City would do the same there.
Leads to my question as to how many lease renewal options will be taken up after the NYC elections.
The only businesses I can’t see leaving California or New York or Ill-annoy are ones based on having a Rolodex with 40 years of clients; farmland is not portable; moving any sort of a factory (the few left) is not all that easy.
But, for those with portable skills like mechanics, IT people, accountants, machinists… Get moving, people.
(I also wonder how many businesses will suddenly have a disaster sometimes described as “lightning struck my insurance policy”, or mysterious electrical fires.)
“Tell me, how do you make a hurricane?”
Portland just had a major building sell for 12% of the 2015 sale price; $372M to $45M
https://www.opb.org/article/2025/07/09/portland-oregon-big-pink-skyscraper-us-bancorp-tower-jeff-swickward/
This comes shortly after another major property sold in a similar fashion; $255M to $33M.
https://www.koin.com/news/portland/family-owned-real-estate-firm-buys-montgomery-park-at-87-discount/
The new $500m Ritz-Carlton Hotel-condo project is either in or heading to default with only 10% of the condos sold.
If one were a pessimist, it might seem that someone was deliberately pushing policies which tanked these values. I have to wonder how many of the lesser valued properties were also seeling for these reduced values, and of course, whether the property taxes have been adjusted down accordingly. More proof that liberals ruin everything they touch. Amazingly, the liberals that I point this out to don’t seem concerned.
SF downtown similar. Can’t get office workers to return to the office when they are required to step over the bodies of homeless junkies dumping on the sidewalks. Without office workers, the downtown retail and hotels follow. Leftists deny it is related to their policies.
Hey, I saw this movie! Shadowy real estate investor increases the crime rate to drive property values down so the corporation can buy it up for cheap.
Next thing to watch out for is autonomous bipedal drones surrounding the purchased real estate, and an honest cop named Murphy being given a cybernetic body.
RoboTaxis dragging homeless junkies up and down the streets of SF. Stranger than fiction.
Quick where is Sarah Hoyt’s shocked face?
Say goodbye to nice houses in your neighborhood and say hello to a new slum.
How bright can the future be when taxpayers are forsaken and replaced by tax absorbers?
I am getting tired of the conspiracy theories coming true.
Some of the lots listed for sale there are asking 10,000 per square foot, how do you build low-cost housing there without confiscating people’s property.
CA could solve a LOT of problems : housing, crime, pollution just to name a few by doing ONE simple thing – DEPORT THEIR ILLEGALS!
Wouldn’t the good people of CA be surprised to see just how much it costs them to support 10 to 15 MILLION ILLEGALS! I read that the number “around” 14 MILLION! Imagine how housing/rental prices would TUMBLE if even 10% of the ILLEGALS were removed and over a MILLION units were now available?? How much could be saved from reducing crimes? How many LIVES could be saved? The DEMOcrats/HYPOCRITES don’t want those TRUTHS exposed – wonder why!!
Early stage communism always uses disguises.
“Affordable low-income housing….”
Given the net worths of a typical Pacific Palisade resident, this statement is somewhere between hilarious and absurd. It’s one of the toniest places in LA. To match what they’ve lost, it would have to be “affordable low-rent penthouses.” Which I’m sure high end LA property owners will, out of the goodness of their hearts, just hand over to Newsome’s relocation crews. At less than their costs, and with no end dates. Because, well…Newsome.
What a guy!
Imagine the money I could make under the table if I were in control permitting and development where I could pass the hat on multi-million dollar housing projects to the major Developers, and look for the winning payout.
Please Donate to the Gavin Newsome 2028 PAC and we shall consider your building permit in proper order.