Newsom to Dump Low-Income Housing in Million-Dollar Pacific Palisades
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...
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...
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Insight: Suburbs are predominantly conservative and Republican. One way the Democrat party can change this voting pattern is to prohibit land use restrictions and override zoning restrictions in suburban cities, thus allowing for densification. In other words, change the demographics by increasing housing density, building subsidized housing in urban areas, and bringing in a democrat-voting demographic. The first step in this direction is to curtail the ability of cities to establish their own land-use policies.
In fire-ravaged Los Angeles, an idea so bad even its sponsor has now disowned it, by Monica Showalter, American Thinker, 17 July 2025.
HUD's War On The Suburbs. The Trump administration officially discarded the rule in July, arguing the regulation was a blatant power grab by the federal government. Created during the Obama regime. Good background information:
Thank You Mark Levin; not a Conservative nor a Liberal Issue Mark, thank you for your “Blast” on July 20 about “Obama’s Race Database”. That blast inspired me to create this www.affh.net website about the new HUD Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing, AFFH, rule. In addition to alerting a number of local conservatives, two days ago the website provided a pathway and links (under HUD Friendlies) for acquiring the necessary HUD information to the Castle Rock, CO, town council for them to vote 5 to 1 against accepting HUD Community Development Block Grant, CDBG, funds.
Podcast: Mark Levin blasts Obama’s race database as part of our growing police state, Right Scoop, 20 July 2015.
Invasive land use bill facing fierce opposition from mountain communities, by Ali Longwell, Vail Daily, 4 April 2023.
Colorado governor, Democrats: limit construction of accessory-dwelling units, duplexes and triplexes, Colorado Sun, 23 March 2023.
California sues Huntington Beach over failure to follow housing laws in warning to other cities, by Marisa Kendall, Mercury News, 6 April 2023.
Push for High-Density Housing Rooted in Racial and Environmental Agendas, Epoch Times, 19 June 2022.
Housing mandates trade living choices for subsidized density, Complete Colorado, 16 April 2023.
How Biden Regime's Housing Plans Would Destroy America’s Suburbs, The Federalist, 19 June 2022:
... In 2015... Obama’s Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) issued a regulation known as Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH). The administration claimed it issued the rule to combat “housing segregation” in suburbs, despite the Fair Housing Act of 1968 already outlawing discriminatory housing practices.
According to the New York Post, had the regulation been successfully implemented nationwide, localities across the country would have had to “scrap zoning, build bigger water and sewer lines to support high-density living, expand schools and social services and add mass transit. All pushing up local taxes.” In essence, virtually all control regarding local governance would be outsourced to the federal government....
Biden, however, has signed on to a proposal by Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., that would effectively withhold federal transportation grants, used to build and repair highways, unless communities sign on to AFFH. It would be almost impossible for many communities to decline this funding for critical infrastructure, handing over America’s suburbs to the federal government....
Stanley Kurtz, a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, recently spoke in an interview with Mark Levin about how a Biden presidency would effectively abolish America’s suburbs as we know them. “It would allow bureaucrats in Washington, in the Department of Housing and Urban Development, to control zoning laws, to control the placement of transportation and business districts, even to some degree the drawing of school districts,” Kurtz said. “In other words, almost every important local governmental responsibility could, under AFFH, fall into the de facto control of the feds.”....
The Trump administration officially discarded the rule in July, arguing the regulation was a blatant power grab by the federal government....