Gov. Gavin Newsom is calling for lawmakers to pass a more than $1.4 billion plan to address the homelessness and housing crisis ravaging California. Nearly a quarter of the nation’s homeless population resides in the state. (hereandnow)
toward rent assistance and building new affordable housing, Newsom has also signed an executive order making public land near roads and freeways available for Federal Emergency Management Agency shelters to serve as temporary shelters.
“The state is taking responsibility and we are being ambitious and we recognize we have to have a multipronged, comprehensive crisis response that includes a housing first focus,” Newsom says. “But at the same time, address the immediacy of the emergency at hand by providing these temporary solutions … that we are advancing in real-time.”and its approach to reducing homelessness. Over the summer, President Trump blamed California Democratic leadership for the current housing crisis on Twitter.
In response, Newsom says he rejects “playing politics” with the issue of homelessness to “embarrass” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi or city mayors, and instead calls for everyone to look at the “humanity and the crisis that's behind it.”Newsom says he is open to collaborating with the Trump administration on solutions, particularly around“We’ve had direct correspondence to the president. I've sent him two letters with specific requests, no snarkiness attached to those requests,” he says.
As California’s housing issues intensify, the number of people facing housing insecurity and homelessness continues to grow — with some taking matters into their own hands. This past December,
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