California will spend about $30 million to build 1,200 small homes across the state this year, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Thursday, part of a plan to help house the nation's largest homeless population and to address an issue that has persistently plag...
The homes, some as small as 120 square feet , can be assembled in 90 minutes and cost a fraction of what it takes to build permanent housing. Newsom said the homes can create space to help clear homeless encampments that have sprung up across the state's major cities. Federal courts have ruled cities can't clear homeless encampments if there are no shelter beds available.
"If you look around the world at places that have gotten a handle on this challenge, it's because they've scaled up safe places for people to go," he said. Bob Erlenbusch, executive director of the Sacramento Regional Coalition to End Homelessness, called Newsom's proposal a"modest step forward." He estimated the homes in Sacramento would be enough to house about 10% of the city's homeless population.
"It's not just about sweeping things under the rug or kicking people off the streets and sidewalks and claiming a job well done," Newsom said."That doesn't do justice." For a few years, they lived in a home that was infested with mold, which aggravated his brother's asthma and forced them to leave. They moved in with his grandmother; if not for her home, which they often shared with multiple other family members, Avelar said they likely would have been homeless.
Leaders of the state's biggest cities and counties want Sacramento to define more clearly their role in addressing homelessness and how the state will measure the success of local programs that receive state funding.
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