Gavin Newsom also orders agencies to identify state property, like vacant hospitals, that can provide temporary shelter.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed an executive order on Wednesday that sets up a fund to combat homelessness in the state and orders state agencies to identify state land and property that can be used to provide temporary shelter for unhoused residents.
State lawmakers still have to approve the governor’s new budget ― the full version of which will be released by end of the week. “The State of California is treating homelessness as a real emergency ― because it is one,” Newsom said. “That’s why we’re using every tool in the toolbox ― from proposing a massive new infusion of state dollars in the budget that goes directly to homeless individuals’ emergency housing and treatment programs, to building short-term emergency housing on vacant state-owned land.”
Story continuesOn Wednesday, Newsom also said that final payments from the $650 million allocated for emergency aid to cities and counties to address homelessness had been sent to those jurisdictions.
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