Gov. Newsom said the goal is to provide more options for homeless people who are “living out in the streets and sidewalks in these extraordinary and horrid conditions.”
and to address an issue that has persistently plagued the state during his time in office.
The goal, he said, is to provide more options for homeless people who are "living out in the streets and sidewalks in these extraordinary and horrid conditions." His goal is to have the new homes placed on public land to house people living in encampments along roads and rivers. Sacramento will get 350 homes, Los Angeles will get 500, San Jose will get 200 and San Diego will get 150.Newsom also announced that he’d released more money to local governments to tackle homelessness following their commitment to be more aggressive about reducing the number of people on the streets.
Currently state homelessness funding has "all sorts of rules that have to be put in and half a dozen different state departments involved in order to find one program," said Graham Knauss, executive director of the California State Association of Counties. "That needs to change. That is not government at its best."
The stakes are high for people like Nathen Avelar, 18, who has struggled with unstable housing most of his life. Avelar grew up with his mother and twin brother in the Central Valley city of Merced, where he said there is plenty of new housing but all out of their reach.
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