LA County Proposes to Seize Houses and Turn Them Over to Political Allies
Corrupt, criminal and radical.
June 25, 2026 by Daniel Greenfield 1 Comment
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The Mamdani regime in New York City has already been making noises about moving on this sort of thing, and now the LA County Board of Supervisors is following suit. People will call this socialism but in some ways this is worse. They’re not just proposing a government takeover of private property, what they’re proposing to do is to use government power and taxpayer money to seize private property and turn it over to their political allies who will run ‘community groups’. This is fundamentally no different than politicians using eminent domain to seize property and transfer it to their political allies who then fund their political campaigns.
Except this scummy behavior here is also overlaid with a leftist revolutionary imperative in which these organizations are also operating as cells and a state within a state. It’s criminal and corrupt and radical behavior being passed off as efforts to help the homeless.
On June 25, the Board of Supervisors is set to consider a motion by Supervisor Hilda Solis to advance a “Community Opportunity to Purchase Act Program for Unincorporated Los Angeles County.”
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The “COPA Program operates alongside the TOPA Program by granting similar purchase rights to mission‑driven affordable housing organizations — such as community land trusts and nonprofit developers — who can acquire and preserve properties when tenants lack the resources to purchase directly,” the Solis motion states…
https://www.frontpagemag.com/la-county-proposes-to-seize-houses-and-turn-them-over-to-political-allies/
