Rental support for young people in foster care is on the chopping block as California lawmakers address a budget deficit.
Get news and commentary on the California issues you care about in one email.Get the news that matters to all Californians. Start every week informed.A"for rent" sign in a window of a residential property in San Francisco on Oct. 20, 2020. Photo by Jeff Chiu, AP PhotoGov. Gavin Newsom’s proposed budget would cut at least $25.5 million of rental support for young people who have been in foster care. Approving the cut could put their housing security at risk.
Not only is this cynical, reneging on a promise to thousands of foster youth who are overwhelmingly Black or Latino and live in poverty, but it is nonsensical. Before the extra dollars were approved last year, I spoke with a half dozen young people currently in a SILP, or who had been. They all said that finding a safe and stable place to live was near impossible with their monthly check. They were thrilled at the possibility of a little more money for them or others in foster care.
But most jarring is how the cut runs counter to Newsom’s well-earned legacy as the steely-eyed fighter of the state’s raging homelessness crisis. Project Homekey alone was a major innovation of the government’s role inThe annual budget allocation for the supplement is infinitesimal compared to the current proposed budget . Roughly 26% of the extra funding is
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