Gavin Newsom plans to box homeowners into ‘inferno canyon’ by building homeless and low-income housing on the one evacuation route
Newsom's plan to pack 1,600 apartments for the homeless and low-income along the only escape route from a wildfire-prone Santa Monica Mountains canyon turns a known danger into a death trap.
Gavin Newsom is moving to block the single evacuation road out of an inferno canyon in the Santa Monica Mountains with 1,600 new apartment units for the homeless and low-income renters. The density alone guarantees gridlock when fire strikes, but the author argues the predictable behavior of many future residents will make escape impossible.
Drive any low-income Los Angeles street and the pattern is unmistakable: broken-down vehicles, shopping carts, tents, garbage, and porches stacked with boxes and lawn chairs. The author draws from personal experience housing a low-income couple who turned a driveway into a junkyard with a non-running car, whitewall tires, tools, and clutter that required constant intervention to manage.
That lived reality, scaled to 1,600 units, means the sole exit route will rapidly fill with obstructions. In a state defined by fast-moving wildfires, the plan does not merely increase risk; it eliminates the margin for survival. The piece calls it premeditated murder because people will die, yet accountability appears off the table.
Newsom's project fits a broader pattern the author sees in California's justice and political systems. Child molesters receive trivial sentences and return to communities under the banner of tolerance. An illegal immigrant who raped a boy in a bathroom was given six months and will be free by year's end. Repeat violent offenders with dozens of arrests walk free, often declared unfit by reason of insanity or low intelligence.
Judges face no consequences. Politicians operate under Club Fed rules or open defiance of the law, from insider trading to dark money. Democrats in particular can create deadly conditions, the author writes, and when the inevitable fire claims lives it will be filed as just another tragedy. Newsom will retreat to his million-dollar home and taxpayer-funded accounts while retaining power.
The canyon residents now face a future where their only way out is deliberately narrowed by the very policies sold as compassion. The question is no longer whether the road will clog. It is whether Sacramento will admit the foreseeable cost before the next fire season arrives.
Original reporting: Americanthinker.com
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