“Governor Gavin Newsom and the California Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) announced the release of $101 million to help rapidly rebuild critically needed, affordable multifamily rental housing in the fire-devastated Los Angeles region.”
That’s right—multifamily rentals. Not houses. Not neighborhoods. Not the communities people lost.
And in case there was any doubt this is about pushing an agenda, the statement continues:
“Thousands of families are still displaced by the wildfires that raged through the Greater Los Angeles Region in January 2025, placing an incredible strain on an already tight rental market.”
Let that sink in. This isn’t about restoring communities—it’s about managing a rental market.
Tomiquia Moss, Secretary of California’s Business, Consumer Services and Housing Agency, put a nice polish on the plan with fancy bureaucratic speak:
“The State’s special Multifamily Finance Super NOFA will galvanize the collective public-private response to the wildfires in Los Angeles County, expediting and expanding opportunities to build affordable housing for low-income residents. By prioritizing affordable housing projects that are ready to go, these funds will accelerate household stability, climate and health outcomes in communities.”
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
Translation? The state is fast-tracking low-income apartment buildings while private citizens are still jumping through hoops just to get a permit to rebuild the homes they already owned.
People who lived in these devastated neighborhoods—some for generations—aren’t asking for subsidized rental units. They’re asking for their land back, their homes rebuilt, and their neighborhoods restored.
Instead, they’re being told to pack into government-backed apartments, whether they like it or not.
Meanwhile, Newsom’s administration continues to stall on single-family rebuild permits.
It’s not hard to see what’s really going on.
This move is part of a larger trend in California—push people out of suburban living and into urbanized, government-controlled housing. They call it “sustainable development” or “climate-conscious planning,” but for the victims of the LA wildfires, it feels like exploitation.
No one is surprised. And no one is buying it anymore.
California leadership seems less interested in restoring what was lost and more focused on reshaping how people live—by force if necessary.
The people didn’t ask for this. They just want their homes back.
