California Governor Gavin Newsom faces criticism for failing to meet his ambitious housing goals while homelessness continues to escalate across the state.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) is two-thirds short of the housing goal he set when he took office in 2019, while homelessness continues to rise across the state.reported Thursday on the dismal lack of progress under Newsom , who promised to build 3.5 million homes, but has only seen 1.1 million homes permitted on his watch — not all of which have actually been built.
Moreover, homelessness has risen across California, despite Newsom’s policy of spending billions of dollars to house the homeless in hotel and motel rooms.In 2022, when he was running for reelection, Newsom walked back the 3.5 million number when his administration set a new, less ambitious target: Cities would need to plan for 2.5 million new homes by 2030. So far, cities and counties have planned for 1.1 million new homes through their housing plans during Newsom’s tenure, said Tara Gallegos, a spokesperson for the governor’s office.Point-in-time count data, which estimates the number of homeless people on the streets on a single night in a jurisdiction, suggests California’s population of homeless people has grown from roughly 150,000 in 2019, the year Newsom took office, to roughly 180,000 last year. The scale of Newsom’s failure on housing matches one of his other major failures: his fire prevention policy, whichto reach the levels necessary to make up for the shortfall when his proposed ban on sales of gas-powered cars takes effect in the state in 2035
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