California will provide nearly 300 state properties for use as homeless shelters...
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - California will provide nearly 300 state properties for use as homeless shelters and should change its laws to make it easier for local officials to get the mentally ill off the streets, Governor Gavin Newsom said on Wednesday.
“Let’s call it what it is, a disgrace, that the richest state in the richest nation ... is failing to properly house, heal and humanely treat so many of its own people,” Newsom said. Many of his proposals were aimed at cutting red tape and providing faster solutions. “We need more housing, not more delays,” he said.
He noted that a large portion of the homeless are mentally ill, a crisis that dates back decades to when state mental institutions were shuttered in favor of community health services that were never properly funded. He proposed that broader health issues, along with mental health, be addressed in dealing with homelessness.
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