Harris’s new home features many of the same amenities—such as a gas stove and fireplace—that the Biden-Harris administration targeted with regulations
Former vice president Kamala Harris and her husband Doug Emhoff purchased an $8 million mansion in an exclusive oceanside Malibu neighborhood last month. The move came after Harris spent years warning that such communities could be threatened by the “climate crisis.”
A real estate listing for the mansion, reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon, says the luxury pad is “perched in a prime coastal location” with “breathtaking ocean views.” The property sits right near a coastline that—according to climate scenarios endorsed by Harris—is at risk of facing extreme flooding. A climate model issued by the Biden-Harris administration determined that Point Dume State Beach, the beach a short walk from Harris’s new property, would be severely damaged by sea level rise even under the model’s most modest projections. The Trump administration discontinued that model in June 2025.
The purchase, which was first reported by the New York Post, calls into question Harris’s earnestness when discussing the threats posed by what she calls the “climate crisis.”
“Our oceans are warming. Sea levels are rising,” Harris wrote during her short-lived presidential campaign in 2019. “Extreme weather is destroying our communities. We are poisoning the planet.”
As a senator, Harris cosponsored the Living Shorelines Act, which called for earmarking $50 million in federal funding a year for combating sea level rise, which threatens “thousands of coastal communities and economies.”
“Our country is facing a climate crisis,” Harris remarked at the time. “We must also take steps to mitigate against sea level rise and prepare for the extreme weather that has become increasingly common.”
Weeks after introducing that bill, Harris shared a Washington Post article on social media, noting that the story and its accompanying analysis show the nation is facing rising sea levels, extreme weather, and higher temperatures. The article stated that Ventura County, Calif.—home to Harris’s recently acquired mansion—has warmed 2.6 degrees Celsius since 1895, more than any other county evaluated using federal data.
As vice president, Harris continued warning of the impact that climate change will have on coastal communities.
Former president Joe Biden made Harris the chief spokeswoman for his billion-dollar Climate-Ready Coasts initiative, under which the administration distributed large grants for projects nationwide in support of coastal communities responding to climate change. Harris announced the first tranche of grants under the initiative in April 2023, doling out $562 million for 149 projects in 30 coastal states and territories.
“To live in a coastal community is to live on the front lines of the climate crisis,” she said during an event at the University of Miami, which she later lauded for “working to tackle one of our most pressing challenges of protecting our coastal communities from extreme weather.”
That same year, the Biden-Harris administration’s Interior Department published a study that concluded that up to 75 percent of California’s beaches may be completely eroded by the year 2100.
Harris’s new home boasts many of the same luxuries that the Biden-Harris administration targeted with burdensome regulations.
Listing photos reviewed by the Free Beacon show the mansion features a gas-powered stove and fireplace. The Biden-Harris administration introduced regulations that would have banned half of the gas stove models on the market.
The home also has a tankless water heater. The Biden-Harris administration finalized regulations in its final weeks that would have banned roughly 40 percent of the tankless water heaters on the market.
Harris’s office didn’t return a request for comment.
Harris is not the only prominent climate alarmist to secure a swanky coastal property. Former president Barack Obama, for example, closed in 2019 on a nearly $15 million home in Martha’s Vineyard, Mass., that is projected to be underwater within 75 years, according to federally funded climate models.
