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California Governor Suspends Low-Income Housing Rules for Fire-Ravaged Areas

State mandates call for affordable housing, but Pacific Palisades and other burn areas will be exempt as they rebuild after January wildfires.
California Governor Suspends Low-Income Housing Rules for Fire-Ravaged Areas
A neighborhood destroyed by the Palisades Fire in Los Angeles as seen on May 7, 2025. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images
Jill McLaughlin
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Developers scrambling to rebuild homes in the coastal California community of Pacific Palisades won’t be forced by the state to build low-income apartments, officials announced July 30.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass each took executive action July 30 to suspend the state’s low-income housing mandates for the communities rebuilding from January’s Palisades and Eaton fires.

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