The mayors are calling on the state to dedicate $1 billion a year for local homelessness services.
RVs and cars are parked at the homeless encampment near Columbus Park in San Jose, Calif., on Friday, April 12, 2024. As California stares down a massive budget deficit, the mayors of the Bay Area’s largest cities are urging Gov. Gavin Newsom and state lawmakers to avoid cuts to homelessness services and dedicate $1 billion a year to helping local governments manage the crisis.
“These dollars have changed hundreds of lives in our city and across the state, and are one of the single most impactful investments the state could make in ending the era of encampments,” San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan said in a statement. The public has grown increasingly weary of encampments and jarring scenes of human suffering in nearly every corner of the state.
“One-time funding for homeless services and the development of affordable housing poses real challenges for local governments working to make sustainable reductions in homelessness,” Jennifer Hark Dietz, chief executive of PATH, a service provider that works in Santa Clara County, said in a statement.
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