Gov. Newsom signs bills to make it easier to provide shelter beds, build more ADUs
6 months, 2 weeks ago

Gov. Newsom signs bills to make it easier to provide shelter beds, build more ADUs

LA Times  

Gavin Newsom signed two bills that aim to boost numbers of of shelter beds and ADUs. Gavin Newsom on Tuesday signed two bills that tweak existing shelter and ADU laws in an attempt to boost supply and make a dent in the state’s housing and homelessness crisis. One of the bills, Assembly Bill 3057, focuses on something called junior ADUs — units created within existing houses that can be up to 500 square feet and don’t need their own bathroom. The bill’s author, Assemblymember Lori D. Wilson, called the exemption a “a small but significant technical change that offers Californians more accessible and efficient options to build affordable housing solutions.” The second bill, Assembly Bill 2835, was authored by Assemblymember Jesse Gabriel.

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Gov. Newsom announces new funds to combat homelessness with accountability measures
3 weeks ago

Gov. Newsom announces new funds to combat homelessness with accountability measures

LA Times  

Gavin Newsom on Monday announced $920 million in newly available funding to help local communities clean up encampments and fight homelessness, as well as new measures he said were meant to ensure state homeless dollars are spent wisely. To access these funds, the governor’s office said local municipalities must meet certain requirements, including that they have moved to clean up …

Editorial: Newsom and San Francisco take a wrong turn on homelessness
7 months, 1 week ago

Editorial: Newsom and San Francisco take a wrong turn on homelessness

LA Times  

Homeless people collect personal items as San Francisco city workers remove an encampment in the Bayview neighborhood on Aug. 1. This ignores the fact that there are 8,300 homeless people in San Francisco, but the city’s 3,600 shelter beds are nearly at capacity. He created Project Roomkey, the program that cities and counties used to move vulnerable homeless people into …

Newsom threatens to take money from counties that don’t reduce homelessness
7 months, 1 week ago

Newsom threatens to take money from counties that don’t reduce homelessness

LA Times  

Gavin Newsom and Caltrans workers clean up an encampment site near Paxton Street and Remick Avenue in Los Angeles on Thursday. Mayor Karen Bass said “strategies that just move people along from one neighborhood to the next or give citations instead of housing do not work.” Los Angeles County Supervisor Lindsey Horvath said the county is already doing “urgent and …

Newsom orders California state agencies to start clearing homeless encampments
7 months, 2 weeks ago

Newsom orders California state agencies to start clearing homeless encampments

Associated Press  

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California Gov. Gavin Newsom ordered state agencies Thursday to start removing homeless encampments on state land in his boldest action yet following a Supreme Court ruling allowing cities to enforce bans on sleeping outside in public spaces. Newsom’s decision garnered praise from some local elected officials and business groups, who said they were left with no options …

Newsom orders California agencies to clear homeless camps, but the impact remains a question
7 months, 2 weeks ago

Newsom orders California agencies to clear homeless camps, but the impact remains a question

LA Times  

Homeless people and their tents on 5th Street in Los Angeles’ Skid Row on June 28. Citing the U.S. Supreme Court’s June ruling that lessened restrictions on the enforcement of anti-camping laws, the order said there is “no longer any barrier to local governments utilizing the substantial resources provided by the State, in tandem with federal and local resources, to …

Newsom signs tenant bills to lower security deposits, prevent more evictions
1 year, 5 months ago

Newsom signs tenant bills to lower security deposits, prevent more evictions

LA Times  

Gavin Newsom has recently signed several tenant protection bills into law, including one that caps how much people pay upfront in security deposits. Gavin Newsom signed several new laws to protect tenants against eviction and high rental costs, including a bill that caps how much people pay upfront in security deposits. This year, state Sen. Aisha Wahab introduced Senate Bill …

Newsom says the state is on track to cut unsheltered homelessness by 15%
2 years ago

Newsom says the state is on track to cut unsheltered homelessness by 15%

LA Times  

Gavin Newsom discusses his plans to build 1,200 small homes across the state to reduce homelessness during a State of the State tour address Thursday in Sacramento. During his first tour stop in Sacramento, Newsom acknowledged “how angry we are as Californians about what’s going on in the streets and sidewalks in our state.” But he said the state has …

Column: Newsom talked tough with mayors and supervisors on homelessness. Did it work?
2 years, 3 months ago

Column: Newsom talked tough with mayors and supervisors on homelessness. Did it work?

LA Times  

A few weeks ago, Gov. Gavin Newsom made headline-grabbing news by rejecting every homeless action plan in the state — holding up hundreds of millions in funding with a demand that local leaders do more to move people off our streets. Across the state, two people fall into homelessness for every one we help into housing, an alarming reality that …

‘Do better': Newsom pauses $1B in homelessness spending
2 years, 4 months ago

‘Do better': Newsom pauses $1B in homelessness spending

Associated Press  

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California’s plans to reduce the nation’s largest homeless population aren’t good enough, Democratic Gov. California’s counties, 13 largest cities and groups of homeless service providers were in line to receive about $1 billion in state homelessness spending, but only if they submitted plans on how they would use the money to reduce the number of unsheltered homeless …

Column: Newsom rejects every local homeless plan in state, demanding more ambition
2 years, 4 months ago

Column: Newsom rejects every local homeless plan in state, demanding more ambition

LA Times  

Gavin Newsom speaks at the inauguration of a unified command center in Orange County for healthcare workers, community groups and local law enforcement to address homelessness collaboratively at HOPE Center in Fullerton on Oct. 27, 2022. “Walk in any community in the state and tell me where we’re at the level we need to be.” On Thursday, Newsom hopes to …

‘Gimme Shelter’: A conversation with Gov. Newsom’s housing advisor
4 years, 2 months ago

‘Gimme Shelter’: A conversation with Gov. Newsom’s housing advisor

LA Times  

During his 2018 campaign for governor, Gavin Newsom unveiled a bold agenda to tackle the state’s housing affordability crisis, pledging to support the building of 3.5 million new homes by 2025. On this episode of “Gimme Shelter: The California Housing Crisis Podcast,” we speak with Jason Elliott, the governor’s top advisor on housing about Newsom’s mixed record so far and …

California Gov. Newsom Lays Out Framework To Address Homelessness
5 years ago

California Gov. Newsom Lays Out Framework To Address Homelessness

NPR  

Newsom Lays Out Framework To Address Homelessness Enlarge this image toggle caption Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images Gov. Sponsor Message Social services advocate Jennifer Friedenbach with the San Francisco Coalition on Homelessness said she's thrilled Newsom is taking the issue seriously but that the state must focus deeply on investment or else these …

California’s homelessness crisis is ‘a disgrace,’ Newsom says in State of the State address
5 years ago

California’s homelessness crisis is ‘a disgrace,’ Newsom says in State of the State address

LA Times  

Newsom says that Californians have ‘lost patience’ with state political leaders who largely ignored a human tragedy that has existed for years. Gavin Newsom vowed to marshal the full force of his administration to alleviate California’s worsening homelessness crisis, a humanitarian imperative for the state and political necessity for a governor whose ambitious progressive agenda could be eclipsed if he …

Gov. Gavin Newsom calls for $1.4 billion in new help for homeless
5 years, 2 months ago

Gov. Gavin Newsom calls for $1.4 billion in new help for homeless

LA Times  

Citing the need to act quickly to get homeless Californians off the streets, Gov. How fast efforts in Los Angeles and other cities receive the money depends on how quickly legislators consider the governor’s plan, though funds allocated during the annual budget process are generally available on July 1. Californians are demanding that all levels of government — federal, state …

Homeless shelters in L.A. could be harder to block if Gov. Newsom signs this bill
5 years, 6 months ago

Homeless shelters in L.A. could be harder to block if Gov. Newsom signs this bill

LA Times  

A bill awaiting Gov. AB 1197 “will help make sure that high-quality, publicly funded short-term and supportive housing — which is already heavily regulated — can move forward quickly and not be delayed by a well-funded minority for disingenuous reasons, like we’ve seen in Venice,” said Tommy Newman, who runs the Everyone In campaign that advocates for homeless housing on …

Newsom sidesteps right-to-shelter plan, but says homeless on streets ‘cannot persist’
5 years, 7 months ago

Newsom sidesteps right-to-shelter plan, but says homeless on streets ‘cannot persist’

LA Times  

Gavin Newsom said Wednesday that he wasn’t ready to back a legal “right to shelter” for those without housing, even though the idea was put forward by two key allies who lead his task force to help find solutions to homelessness. Newsom’s task force leaders, Los Angeles County Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas and Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg, also support a requirement …

California mayors push Newsom for more funding to address homelessness
5 years, 11 months ago

California mayors push Newsom for more funding to address homelessness

LA Times  

Gavin Newsom speaks at a news conference Wednesday after meeting with mayors from large California cities on homelessness funding. The request followed a successful effort last year from big-city mayors, including Garcetti, San Diego’s Kevin Faulconer, San Jose’s Sam Liccardo and others, to push for $500 million in state grants for homelessness prevention efforts under then-Gov. Gavin Newsom threatens to …

Lawsuit demands L.A. eliminate ‘pocket veto’ on homeless housing
6 years, 7 months ago

Lawsuit demands L.A. eliminate ‘pocket veto’ on homeless housing

LA Times  

Los Angeles City Councilwoman Nury Martinez declined to provide a required letter for a proposed project to house homeless people on this vacant lot on Sheldon Street in Sun Valley. Under city regulations, housing developers seeking funding for affordable or homeless housing projects must get a “letter of acknowledgment” from the council member who represents the area where they want …

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