‘Everyone has to do better.’ Newsom holds state homelessness funding hostage
Sending a sharp rebuke to cities and counties he says are not setting sufficiently ambitious goals to reduce homelessness, Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday said he’ll hold $1 billion in state funding hostage until local jurisdictions do better.
In an effort to increase accountability, Newsom recently started requiring all cities and counties to submit “homeless action plans” as a condition of receiving state homelessness funding. The plans are supposed to detail how officials would spend the money to reduce the number of people living on their streets and increase permanent housing. But Newsom was far from happy with the initial round of plans he received, and is not approving any of them.
Newsom said he will gather local officials for a meeting in mid-November to talk about the state’s expectations and go over strategies to better address the homelessness crisis. The $1 billion — which comes from round three of the state’s Homelessness Housing, Assistance and Prevention grants — will be on hold until then.
While Newsom allowed that some of the plans he received show cities and counties taking “aggressive action,” he said others reflect double-digit increases in homelessness over four years.
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