Opinion: Melissa Melendez: California can’t solve homelessness while ignoring key drivers of homelessness
As part of his extended state-of-the state tour this month, Gov. Gavin Newsom’s “new” multi-tiered plan to address the state’s homelessness crisis seems curiously like so many of his previous plans to address the issue that has dogged him throughout his more than two decades career in elected political life.
What did Prop. N, in fact, yield? A 2018 Los Angeles Times lookback at Newsom’s record in San Francisco showed marginal fluctuations in official homeless numbers between the enactment of Prop. N and the first six years of his mayorship were a result of re-housing people who were already in shelters and did little to affect the chronically homeless — essentially it was a “re-purposing of existing money.
It is bewildering, to say the least, that the governor now wants to double down on the same failed policies. Take for instance his proposal to amend Proposition 63 , a tax increase voters approved under the guise that it would fund the state’s mental health infrastructure. A 2018 state auditor’s report noted that funds have been diverted, misspent and even unspent, amassing as county slush funds.
It raises the question: Why do Newsom and his allies repeatedly deemphasize the central role drug abuse and trafficking has in causing and perpetuating California’s homelessness crisis?
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