What purpose is served by more spending on so-called “infrastructure” (and the associated bureaucrats), other than to contribute to the mirage the governor has any control over this crisis? Why else would Newsom double down and expand failed and poorly administered programs? 23 and its attempts to address “mental health” infrastructure were sloppily implemented and failed to curtail the explosion of homelessness in the nearly 20 years since its enactment. Now Newsom wants to spend these and even more funds on “treatment beds” for mental health patients and drug addicts, adding additional bond debt for expanded homelessness programs and infrastructure. A 2018 state auditor’s report noted that funds have been diverted, misspent and even unspent, amassing as county slush funds.
Take for instance his proposal to amend Proposition 63 (2004), a tax increase voters approved under the guise that it would fund the state’s mental health infrastructure. It is bewildering, to say the least, that the governor now wants to double down on the same failed policies. Interagency Council on Homelessness tracked an almost 30% increase in the official number of homeless people statewide between 20, to 161,548, a third of whom are “chronically homeless.” What about the decade plus Newsom has been in statewide office? The U.S. 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.” 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. Yet, if the numbers show anything, decades of cash transfers to Newsom’s public sector union allies have only witnessed an exponential rise of chronic homelessness and its sorry effects on Californians’ quality of life. Who can forget San Francisco’s 2002 Proposition N (euphemistically titled “Care not Cash”) that turbocharged that city’s homeless industrial complex in the name of providing services, and not direct payments, to the chronically indigent? Now the governor proposes even more bureaucracy, more rhetoric and redirection away from the real issues, and more of the same misery for thousands of chronically homeless and drug-addicted Californians.
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. As part of his extended state-of-the state tour this month, Gov.
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