Responding to a growing crisis on the streets of California's cities, Gover...
- Responding to a growing crisis on the streets of California’s cities, Governor Gavin Newsom on Wednesday sought to create a $750 million fund to help house the homeless and directed the state to immediately start setting up tents and trailers.
“The state of California is treating homelessness as a real emergency - because it is one,” Newsom, a Democrat, said in a statement announcing his budget proposals, which he is expected to formally deliver to the state legislature on Friday. Homeless advocates have cited low housing vacancy as a main contributor to homelessness. The Los Angeles metropolitan area has a roughly 4 percent vacancy rate, one of the lowest in the United States, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
In an executive order, Newsom also directed the state’s Department of General Services to supply 100 camp trailers, along with an unspecified number of “modular tent structures” as temporary housing.
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