Gov. Gavin Newsom has committed over $14 billion toward homelessness and launched programs such as Project Homekey and Project Roomkey, which used existing hotels and motels to get people indoors. In his characteristically bold fashion, Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday announced plans to address the homeless crisis with a new system that will use courts to push mentally ill and addicted people into housing and treatment.
In San Francisco, people struggling with opioid addiction show up to methadone clinics and get told to come back another day. Homeless elderly people and patients in need of serious medical care get dumped on the streets in their wheelchairs because there’s apparently nowhere to put them. This is the reality in The City named for St. Francis, and it’s the same in cities statewide.
“There remains a gap in the number of shelter placements for in San Francisco,” said a Department of Public Health spokesperson last week when I inquired about disabled people discharged from hospitals to the streets. “Shelter capacity is limited and not everyone referred to shelter accepts the placement. Shelter capacity does not always meet the needs of the individual. To live in shelters individuals must be independent of all activities of daily living.
“We made progress with Laura’s Law … but when you look at the results, 200 — by the way, this is an exact number — 218 people in the entire state of California served by Laura’s Law,” said Newsom. “That wasn’t much of a reform.” The main question, however, is whether local governments will have the resources to provide the court-mandated housing and services on an ongoing basis. If they have money for this, it’s not clear where it’s all been going.
He's been solving this problem since his days as mayor. Maybe he'll figure it out in a few more years.
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