Opinion: California can solve the homelessness crisis, it just can’t keep doing more of the same
The state of California has spent roughly $20 billion to address the crisis of homelessness, and now Gov. Gavin Newsom wants taxpayers to go into debt to pay even more.
Except for the newly constructed buildings and the interest payments on the bonds, this plan sounds a lot like Project Roomkey. In that supposedly temporary pandemic-era program, the government leased hotels and paid for onsite services to house and support people who were living on the streets. Similarly, while the new facilities would provide mental health and addiction treatment services, there likely would be no requirement for residents to use them.
As long as SB 1380 is the law in California, taxpayers could spend twice the budget of the war in Ukraine and never see any improvement in the homelessness crisis. The exclusion dates to 1965, when President Lyndon Johnson signed the law that enacted Medicaid. It’s the reason that today, the largest mental health facilities in California are the county jails.
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