State property put to good use
The National Guard armories in Santa Ana and Fullerton provide night shelter for homeless people during the winter. In this July 2018 photo, people bed down on the floor of the Santa Ana Armory.
In 2019, Newsom ordered an inventory of all state property, requiring the identification of sites appropriate for short-term shelter, to be offered by local governments and charities. The order, however, did not lead to an increase in the stock of available shelter because local government officials, responsive to natural concerns of their constituents, largely do not want new homeless shelters within their boundaries.
The California National Guard armories are state property. As such, their use takes precedence over county and city zoning ordinances. That is a huge advantage in overcoming local resistance. Gov. Newsom can tolerate the political heat of armory use for homeless shelter much more than a city council member can because Newsom’s constituency is not localized to the neighborhood of the armory.
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