The chief executive of a home builder based in Los Angeles said it’s going to take a while for homes to be rebuilt after the wildfires that have devastated the area.

Gavin Newsom is trying to increase the chances that homes lost to the Los Angeles firestorms get rebuilt quickly. The governor’s order to eliminate potential state regulatory roadblocks and his nudges to streamline local construction permitting processes acknowledge that getting approval to build housing in and around Los Angeles has long been an arduous,

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed an executive order that waives building permits to help Los Angeles rebuild faster following devastating wildfires.

Parts of Los Angeles are still burning from multiple wildfires. Some evacuated residents returned to their homes to find nothing but rubble.

UCLA had been open Wednesday, a day after the fire ignited near the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles, west of UCLA’s campus in Westwood. But the school canceled undergraduate classes on Thursday and Friday, while graduate courses had remote learning. Monday classes were then moved to remote.

Two fires have ignited in the Los Angeles area Tuesday, including one dubbed the Palisades fire that exploded to more than 1,200 acres and has forced evacuations, as the area expects