California Releases $101 Million to Rebuild Affordable Multifamily Housing After the Los Angeles Fires
On July 8, 2025, California Governor Gavin Newsom and the California Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) announced the release of $101 million to help rapidly rebuild affordable multifamily rental housing in the parts of Los Angeles County, California, devastated by the January 2025 wildfires. Six months after the fires, thousands of families were still displaced, placing further strain on an already tight rental market.
The funding is offered through a special round of HCD's Multifamily Finance Super NOFA (MFSN), called MFSN-LA Disaster, which lets affordable housing developers apply to multiple funding programs through a single application. The special round prioritizes projects that are close to wildfire burn areas, ready to begin construction immediately upon award, and include a resident preference for households displaced by the Los Angeles County wildfires. The money combines grants for the infrastructure needed to facilitate housing development, low-interest loans for new multifamily units affordable to low-income and very low-income households, and operating subsidy reserves to support the projects' long-term feasibility. All projects must remain affordable for at least 55 years.
Newsom said that thousands of families, from Pacific Palisades to Altadena to Malibu, were still displaced and owed help, and that the funding would accelerate affordable multifamily housing so people rebuilding their lives have a safe, affordable place to come home to. Tomiquia Moss, Secretary of the California Business, Consumer Services and Housing Agency, said the special NOFA would galvanize the collective public-private response to the fires. HCD Director Gustavo Velasquez said the department had refined a program built on efficiency specifically to help the Los Angeles region rebuild.
Application materials for MFSN-LA Disaster will be available July 21, 2025, and first-phase applications must be uploaded to the HCD website no later than August 21, 2025, at 4:00 p.m. PDT; the special round uses a two-phase award process, and if funds remain after shovel-ready projects are assessed, applications will continue to be accepted until the funds are expended. Earlier in 2025, HCD had released $382 million statewide through the same MFSN channel in February and a separate $50 million Tribal MFSN in March. The announcement came a day after the governor announced the substantial completion of the public debris removal program covering more than 10,000 fire-damaged parcels.
(Source: California Department of Housing and Community Development)
Source: California Department of Housing and Community Development
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Photo: 图：2025年1月 Eaton 山火过后，加州洛杉矶县 Mount Wilson 一带被烧过的山坡，这次拨款支持的住房重建面向洛杉矶县山火灾区。Grigory Heaton 摄，CC BY-SA 4.0，经 Wikimedia Commons。 / Photo: The burned slopes around Mount Wilson in Los Angeles County, California, days after the January 2025 Eaton Fire; the funding announced supports housing rebuilding across the county's fire-affected areas. Photo by Grigory Heaton, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
