They will be spread across four cities — Sacramento, San Jose, San Diego and Los Angeles — with local governments deciding exactly where to place them and being responsible for managing them.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Gov. Gavin Newsom said Thursday that California will build 1,200 small homes across the state as part of an effort to help house the nation's largest homeless population and to address an issue that has persistently plagued the state during his time in office.
There were more than 170,000 people on California's streets in 2022, according to federal data. Newsom said the 1,200 new homes are just one part of wide-ranging state efforts to tackle the issue. He's approved more than $22.3 billion in spending on new housing and homelessness since taking office, according to the Legislative Analyst’s Office.
Currently state homelessness funding has “all sorts of rules that have to be put in and half a dozen different state departments involved in order to find one program,” said Graham Knauss, executive director of the California State Association of Counties. “That needs to change. That is not government at its best.”
The stakes are high for people like Nathen Avelar, 18, who has struggled with unstable housing most of his life. Avelar grew up with his mother and twin brother in the Central Valley city of Merced, where he said there is plenty of new housing but all out of their reach.
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