This is John Batchelor.

Colleague Jeff Bliss reports on an effort by the state legislature led by Ben Allen, state senator from Hollywood, Beverly Hills, and the West Side, to buy land from the Pacific Palisades ownership with state money and turned it into low-cost housing

for the homeless. Here's Jeff to explain. It hasn't happened yet, but more of this tonight.

What they want to do, what he was planning to do until he was caught by people keeping their eye on this

and who went after this on social media. I mean, they changed the day. They got them to hold off on this.

What they wanted to do was take state money, money that was created through taxpayer funds,

including people who lived in the Palisades,

they'd be taxed for this too. And they would use it to build to create low cost, but in the most

part, free housing. I mean, they were talking about having 40% of the housing, they would now put

into the Palisades footprint, would be for the homeless. And people were saying, okay, wait a minute, I could understand some low-cost housing for people

who work there who can't afford to live there.

But why are you bringing homeless here?

Now, that creates a whole other set of issues because you're talking about there are

no resources there for them.

There's very little public transportation other than

some buses that run through there occasionally. But this is, you know, this is wishful thinking.

Like I said, while the fires were going, there were people in City Hall and in Sacramento who were

saying, here's our chance to, you know, redesign that spot to get our agenda at work. And sure enough,

it's come true. But thankfully because of the uproar, especially on social media, they've shelved

this plan for a year. And there are going to be a lot of people watching what goes on.