CA Senate Passes Bill Allowing LA to Buy Fire Ravaged Lots to Build Low Income Housing

I’m poor. I’m moving to California for some cheap beachfront property.

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Pacific Palisades is screwed - Million dollar homes next to section 8.

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Might just be a massive "red pill" moment.

This happens during all natural disasters


Majority never notice. Many cannot afford to rebuild, so they sell at low price and investors take a huge dump in the area, after buying that property up, with tax credits to boot

so de-gentrification?

Good, turn the whole thing into one, big stinking ghetto.

Again, remind me about all those great things about living in California.

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so de-gentrification?

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That's a good term.

A lot of the homes there were old and grandfathered in with respect to all of the onerous (and costly) regulations that were enacted over the decades. Many of the owners simply can't afford to rebuild new homes there. In many cases, their only options for relief will be to sell to developers (or the county/city).

It's easy to sit in your isolated high end neighborhood and demand "low income housing"...in someone else's neighborhood. But I suspect it will be a different story for those folks with the threat of it showing up next door.

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but...don't the owners HAVE to agree to sell?? Yall make it sound like they are just taking peoples property.

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It's hilarious that you've never heard about Imminent Domain.

Anyone ever wonder how the trees dont burn/die?

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Anyone ever wonder how the trees dont burn/die?

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Trees native to the Chaparral are accustomed to fast burning fire. Historically, the Chaparral doesn't burn very often (traditionally it has fire intervals of 30+ years). That allows what tree species are native in the ecosystem to grow larger and more resistant to killing fire. When you run fire through that area consistently, as when humans showed up and began starting fires everywhere, it keeps the Chaparral young, more full of fast growing scrub and younger, less fire resistant trees. Humans also brought to the equation non-native plants and grasses that can grow faster, and subsequently die earlier in drought conditions. You wind up with brown, dead standing non-native grasses that are rocket fuel for wildfire on any landscape.

Generally speaking, native trees on any landscape are adequately adapted to survive whatever fire regime is native to that ecosystem.