Two Bay Area cities are among 10 regions throughout California to receive $17 million in Family Homelessness Challenge Grant funds with the goal of reducing family homelessness in the Golden State.
Oakland and Livermore are the two Bay Area cities to join 10 California communities in receiving the funds, the awards of which are provided through the California Interagency Council on Homelessness.
The other cities are Fontana, Los Angeles, San Diego and Salinas. Also included are Pasadena and Sacramento, and Mendocino and Santa Clara counties.
Livermore, with a population of 91,000, will receive $581,000 from the fund. Oakland, the Bay Area’s third largest city with a population of 423,000, will receive $2 million.
Salinas will receive $2.6 million.
“This is not a one-size-fits-all approach. With these grants, communities throughout the state are stepping up with their own solutions and best practices – cutting through red tape to effectively and efficiently eliminate family homelessness,” said Gov. Gavin Newsom. “Success leaves clues, and through this process we are not only rewarding programs that work, we are also supporting systems that are innovative, and accelerate efforts to address the challenges of family homelessness at the local level.”
Newsom’s multi-billion-dollar homeless housing investments will provide more than 55,000 new housing units and treatment slots in the coming years. Building on last year’s historic $12 billion investment to help get the most vulnerable people off the streets, the California Blueprint proposes an additional $2 billion investment to create a total $14 billion package to confront the homelessness crisis.
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I don’t get to the homeless areas but I wonder if you do are there less homeless out there after spending 12 billions dollars? Who is getting this money?
Building on last year’s historic $12 billion investment to help get the most vulnerable people off the streets, the California Blueprint proposes an additional $2 billion investment to create a total $14 billion package to confront the homelessness
Who gets the $14 billion? All of the non-profit groups and agencies. They hold meetings, plan and make pretty power point presentations and perhaps a website. There will be pop-up tents with people holding signs and pens and stickers for the cause. Then, the money will run out.
gov newsom now talking about helping homeless. Believe it when happens. Suppose to help seniors with a stimulas n a gas card 400 n have not seen either. Don.t believe this gov…a talker but not doer.
Newsom has talked about helping the homeless for over 20 years now. That’s how we first won the mayor position in San Francisco. But he never seems to get anything done.
He’s a pure politician with his sights on the presidency! I hope people can see through him.
I agree. He only comes around at election time with promises and then goes back to escapting around town. His poor second partner has no clue. She should consult with Kimberly.
WTH is $581,000 going to do? What a joke.
“Money Shell Game Show” Thanks for your participation. : ) going into politicians pockets since 1920.
Oakland and Livermore ought to take a look at what they’ve done in Houston. They’ve been successful in reducing homelessness. Might not work here due to high rents, but worth looking at.
Do Calif taxpayers get a say in how the $$ is spent to help homeless? …. guess we know the answer to that question
Nope. The homeless don’t ether. It all goes to entities created to handle this money. It is spent to pay more salaries and NOT to fix any problems.
Newsom has proven without any doubt he has no clue how to improve the homeless issue. He does know how to shovel taxpayer money, so this time he is shoveling taxpayer money at those who may or may not be able to improve the homeless issue. At least he can check the box that he addressed the issue as part of his quest for the presidency.
I will bet you most of the money is going to administration cost.Where this money goes and what it is spent on should be available to the public.
Eventually Newsom is going to run out of other people’s money. Get out before they institute the exit tax!
People complain on here non stop about homeless. CA tries to do something about the homeless and the same people complain. BuT What about MEEEEE….poor babies
Newsom keeps spending more, and the problem keeps getting worse. That’s not a complaint, it’s a fact.
There is zero accountability on his watch. Look at the billions in unemployment fraud last year. He didn’t even bother to investigate.
Time for some new ideas. You know, think outside the check book.
Since when has CA actually tied to really do anything instead of grandstand? There is no fix to homelessness. It is not about providing someone with an actual home. The sooner we realize this cannot be fixed, the more money we will save.
Newsom spends billions of taxpayers money on supposedly housing the homeless. Why do all the cities still have tents and poo covered streets like when he was Mayor of San Francisco. Like others have mentioned, there needs to be an audit to follow all the Benjamin’s being spent on these programs. Besides, we don’t have enough water supply or power for all these
Developments.
Good answers – where specifically is the money going? Different homeless..
Do you want shelter? I hear 3/5 are addicts or mentally incapable.
I am all for helping families that way! I am fed up with these able-body strong men who could easily be working. But they loved mooching instead and people are just enabling him by giving them stuff. I’ve helped so many of these men in the Concord area I can tell you first-hand moster mooching. I’m also amazed at the high percentage of them who have family living in the Bay Area where they could be living. But they don’t want to live by the rules of the house or stop their drug and partying.
What’s the accountability ? My guess a wink and nod to the Martinez bureaucracy, I’m guessing alot of feel good crap with little progress
Throwing money at this issue is not going to solve anything for most homeless other than moving the drug and alcohol abuse indoors. I guess it’s too hard for the “pat myself on the back group” to spend that money on rehabilitation and training for people so they can become self sufficient. California is absolutely run by morons!!!
Homeless should set up camp outside the residences of the people in charge of using the funding to end homeless problem … might work.
Hopefully there will not be anything in place to prevent fraud so prison inmates and internet scammer can suck the program dry the first day.
More housing projects?????????/
If you put food out back for cats, you will have cats.
This money will go in the same hole all our road tax money goes in.
The homeless issue has been around for multiple decades in California. I find it funny that people attribute it to a certain political party or governor. We had Gov. Schwarzenegger up to 2011 and there was a homeless problem then. It’s nothing new.
When I grew up in Oakland, it was home to the A’s, Raiders, and Warriors. City pride. Now it’s home to the homeless. Way to go Libby.
So the homeless problem in California should be an accepted norm…
I certainly don’t think it should be accepted. It will not be solved with money. It would have to be a cultural shift back to individual standards of behavior and discouraging dysfunctional lifestyles. The current woke regime celebrates differences, no matter how pathological, as an expression of civil rights. I don’t see drugged out desperate and hopeless individuals living on cardboard or under tarps as an expression of their civil rights.
Just who is funding this billion dollar fantasy?? He is Pelosi’s nephew and he learns by role model training!
Presidency aspirations?? We do not need another Biden becoming our POTUS!!
Maybe if more people start living in tents it will free up the short supply on housing….
So, can I rent my villa out on AirBNB, camp out under an overpass sipping single-malt scotch out of a brown paper bag and popping Vicodins and get in on the handout?
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