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Gov Newsom announces $101M funding to
build Palisades low-income housing

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Posted By: NorthernDog, 7/9/2025 2:06:57 PM

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

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40% of units must be for the homeless or people who were in jail or a mental institution. How are people like that going to live in a high income area where everything is expensive?

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Reply 1 - Posted by: RobertJ984 7/9/2025 2:09:28 PM (No. 1975069)
Funding = YOUR TAX DOLLARS
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Reply 2 - Posted by: JonR 7/9/2025 2:15:21 PM (No. 1975070)
This was probably the plan even before the fires broke out! Absolutely communist, outrageous and disgusting!
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Reply 3 - Posted by: HerbVA 7/9/2025 2:20:10 PM (No. 1975072)
Andrew Wilkow called this months ago.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: marbles 7/9/2025 2:28:17 PM (No. 1975074)
And there it is. The plan all along.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: Sardonic 7/9/2025 2:29:14 PM (No. 1975076)
Never let a good crisis go to waste. Nevermind the income levels and demographics of the people that were actually affected by the fires, just use this an excuse for your socialist utopia dreams.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: WhamDBambam 7/9/2025 2:30:48 PM (No. 1975077)
I'm surprised that there's not an armed revolt.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: Californian 7/9/2025 2:32:23 PM (No. 1975079)
Yeah, we used to call this section 8 and before that we were honest about it and called it the slums or the ghetto. Thanks for building more slums! Good job!
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Reply 8 - Posted by: Jethro bo 7/9/2025 2:33:18 PM (No. 1975080)
As always, he's right. Low income housing will lead to a more equitable and resilient LA. Increasing poverty is more equitable since everyone is equal poor. And nothing is more resistant than poverty. When all the folks with money move away, LA will be a paradise of resilient and equal poor bums.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: JunkYardDog 7/9/2025 2:34:05 PM (No. 1975081)
Liberals seem to hate beachfront property (that THEY do not own); think of all the wealthy slobs in Malibu who have to wait for years to obtain the building permits to reconstruct their beachfront hideaways they lost in the fire 6 months ago...who are now reading the Newsome is putting low cost housing as a priority. Meanwhile, the Malibu porperty owners STILL are stuck paying property tax on land that CA is slow-rolling the permit process on. In NYC, there is a TON of beachfront propery that has low income housing built upon it just past Coney Island. It looks like downtown Beirut, so many abandoned buildings with boarded up windows. What a WASTE. And Gov Brylcream is determined to replicate it.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: Californian 7/9/2025 2:34:58 PM (No. 1975083)
Sorry for second post. To op's question about how will poor people afford to live in high income area: they won't be in a high income area. Any rich and middle class people with any other option will flee before the first nail is struck. This plan will quickly turn the entire area into a low income one crime zone.
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Reply 11 - Posted by: NorCaliInfidel 7/9/2025 2:34:59 PM (No. 1975084)
What will the impact be on property values and lower future tax revenues because of lower property values? It is not just an initial subsidy cost, it is a decreased revenue cost that results from this idiocy.
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Reply 12 - Posted by: Tennman 7/9/2025 2:38:15 PM (No. 1975086)
Based on how California does this, should get 3, maybe 4, units for this money.
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Reply 13 - Posted by: snowoutlaw 7/9/2025 2:39:16 PM (No. 1975087)
Yes this was the plan all along, to reshape the whole state into a commie utopia and why there was no water available to fight the fires. Not just beach front, they hate any single family house.
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Reply 14 - Posted by: marbles 7/9/2025 2:45:49 PM (No. 1975097)
This was always the plan.
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Reply 15 - Posted by: DVC 7/9/2025 2:51:26 PM (No. 1975101)
Burn down upper middle class homes, build back slums for criminals. Dems are hellish.
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Reply 16 - Posted by: sw penn 7/9/2025 2:53:46 PM (No. 1975102)
And in five years when Newsom has moved on to greener pastures, you can already foresee the headline... $30 Billion dollars later Not a single apartment has been built... Most went to democrat campaign contributions...
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Reply 17 - Posted by: JHHolliday 7/9/2025 2:55:48 PM (No. 1975103)
That sound you hear is tax money leaving for red states. Living in a high dollar neighborhood next to a ghetto is not worth being shot and killed for your Rolex and wallet.
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Reply 18 - Posted by: minuteman 7/9/2025 3:06:02 PM (No. 1975107)
The good news is that with the government running it $101M will only build 2-3 homes.
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Reply 19 - Posted by: Catherine 7/9/2025 3:11:19 PM (No. 1975109)
I keep waiting to see what Oprah rebuilds on the town of LaHania (spelling wrong, I know) in Hawaii. That is one of the sickest events I've ever seen. As for California, it's hard to feel sorry for them. They keep electing these people. No one can fix that but them. Maybe this is the impetus they need.
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Reply 20 - Posted by: earlybird 7/9/2025 3:17:41 PM (No. 1975114)
Thus forever changing the nature of a community in the name of "equity". The Palisades was an upper middle class community with higher end homes as well. The homeless do not need to live on high end real estate which is what the Palisades is ...
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Reply 21 - Posted by: wayneright 7/9/2025 3:27:22 PM (No. 1975122)
I called this the day of the fire.... ITs why they burned Look for huge sections now to be deemed "environmentally sensitive" Gonna be nothing but ultra rich, section 8 housing to clean their toilets, and open land.
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Reply 22 - Posted by: Quigley 7/9/2025 3:47:02 PM (No. 1975132)
The poor will be used as a fire break for the E-Lite. They'll feel safe.
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Reply 23 - Posted by: Jesuslover54 7/9/2025 4:07:27 PM (No. 1975148)
And there it is. Took almost no rime.
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Reply 24 - Posted by: Venturer 7/9/2025 4:52:23 PM (No. 1975177)
310 as the answer. Anyone with a brain will head somewhere else.
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Reply 25 - Posted by: mean Gene 7/9/2025 5:09:49 PM (No. 1975183)
CA used to have really low cost housing near a SoCal beach, decades ago. Then some pol got it in his mind to force all those poor people out and big new luxury housing was built. This is the long-term plan. Make it look like you're helping the poor for a while then pull the rug out from them and make a killing.
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Reply 26 - Posted by: volksford 7/9/2025 5:10:27 PM (No. 1975184)
Commies want everyone packed in nice and tight , that way they can be controlled easily
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Reply 27 - Posted by: jasmine 7/9/2025 5:14:43 PM (No. 1975185)
Once again, Democrats are tone deaf, putting the interests of people who lost nothing in the fires ahead of people who lost everything.
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Reply 28 - Posted by: udanja99 7/9/2025 6:24:09 PM (No. 1975221)
#19, Hawaii keeps electing the same kind of people. Don’t feel sorry for them either. I hope that James Woods already has his home on the market and is looking for a new one in a Red State.
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Reply 29 - Posted by: danu 7/9/2025 7:16:35 PM (No. 1975244)
the commi plan was make the palisades an olympic venue, and clear a tidy packet. now it's going to be the 8th ring of hell. when will the residents arrest these murderous sewer rats.
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Reply 30 - Posted by: hershey 7/9/2025 9:14:45 PM (No. 1975277)
Isn't that what commies want??? Burn down single homes and replace them with low income housing packed into a tight little space so they can control the residents better???
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Reply 31 - Posted by: mc squared 7/9/2025 10:58:09 PM (No. 1975285)
This was the plan. So much faster that eminent domain: burn the city down, Some of us predicted it.
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Reply 32 - Posted by: greggojo 7/9/2025 11:46:33 PM (No. 1975289)
With all the regulations in place in LA, 101 million will build one fairly large apartment complex, maybe. In downtown, the geniuses who run LA are paying ~a million dollars for each two bedroom apartment.
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