A $5b bond measure could go before voters in 2024 if legislature first approves
In a major legislative proposal to combat the state’s growing homelessness crisis, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Sunday an effort to push billions of dollars toward building a vast network of treatment beds to help California’s mentally ill and drug-addicted residents find care.
The diversion of funds would come from the Mental Health Services Act, legislation passed as Proposition 63 by voters in 2004 that raised income taxes by 1% for California residents earning $1 million or more. The money currently funds a third of the state’s entire mental health system. The idea of seeking a large-scale bond measure to help secure housing for severely mentally ill people came as a welcome development for Ben Metcalf, managing director of the UC Berkeley Terner Center for Housing Innovation.
“This is a success story – Newsom is correct to want to build on it,” Metcalf said. “He’s correct that with the state budget challenges, he can’t do what he has been doing, which is just divert budget surpluses into these programs. And so the next step in this journey is to go to the voters.”
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