A state audit last year found California had failed to track $24 billion in homelessness funds Gov. Gavin Newsom is again threatening to withhold state money to address homelessness from local governments that are failing to make progress in moving people off the street. Click Here to Subscribe...
with over 180,000 people estimated to have experienced homelessness on any given night in 2023, including 123,000 people who experienced unsheltered homelessness, living in tents, trailers, and vehicles across California, according to the governor's office. ...
Since taking office in 2019, Newsom's administration has invested approximately $24 billion to address homelessness. More than 165,000 homeless people were moved into interim or permanent housing in the 2022-23 fiscal year. Additionally, the California Department of Transportation has removed 11,188...
A state audit last year found California had failed to track $24 billion in homelessness funds Gov. Gavin Newsom is again threatening to withhold state money to address homelessness from local governments that are failing to make progress in moving people off the street. Click Here to Subscribe...
While voters have repeatedly named homelessness as a top issue in California, some are alarmed with the looming multibillion-dollar budget deficit and growing frustrated with Newsom's administration spending billions to get people off the streets with little dramatic change. Brian Sobel, a ...
tandem with support services provided by county government.Since taking office in 2019, Newsom said he has invested more than $24 billion toward addressing the homelessness crisis in the state, including allocating $4.85 billion for homeless, housing assistance and prevention grants for local ...
A state legislative audit committee confirmed this increase in homelessness in a scathing report. In it, state auditors found that homeless numbers jumped 53% in the last decade with an estimated 180,000 people unhoused in California, despite the spending of more than $20 billion to st...
ELK GROVE, Calif.-For almost a year, a California city has been paying itshomeless populationto keep their camps clean. The city of Elk Grove, located just south of the state capital of Sacramento with a population of more than 174,000, has the lowest rate of homelessness in the county...
The Governor’s budget closes a projected $32 billion budget shortfall while protecting key investments in the issues that matter most to Californians, including education, health care, housing and homelessness, public safety, and climate action. Metrolink Pop-Up Events Will Celebrate Riders on ...
It also directs the state’s Interagency Council on Homelessness to “develop guidance and provide technical assistance” to local governments. The state invested over $24 billion in funding to assist local jurisdictions “in providing services and wrap-around support” to people living in encampment...