Native governments might be required to report their expenditures every month whereas frequently submitting program outcomes, together with how many individuals are helped into housing. The data might be posted on on-line public dashboards.
The cash will go to 37 areas representing 100 cities, counties and native organizations. Every was required to submit an authorized homelessness response plan to use for funding.
Within the Bay Space, the Santa Clara County area will obtain $57 million, the Alameda County area will obtain $56 million and the San Francisco area will obtain $43 million. Areas with smaller homeless populations, together with the San Mateo, Marin, Napa, and Solano county areas, will obtain $5 million or much less.
In all, the nine-county Bay Space will obtain almost $170 million. The cash might be break up between county and metropolis governments.
“Continued state funding…has been hugely important to the County of Santa Clara’s efforts to provide temporary housing and services to unhoused individuals and families,” stated KJ Kaminski, performing director of the County of Santa Clara Workplace of Supportive Housing, which has additionally used the cash on monetary help for residents on the point of homelessness.
The announcement on Tuesday follows a scathing state audit in April that discovered the state had didn’t adequately monitor the $24 billion it spent on homelessness over the previous 5 years. Throughout that point, California’s unhoused inhabitants ballooned 38% to greater than 181,000 individuals. In 2022, the Bay Space had an estimated 38,000 homeless residents.
Initially Revealed: October 29, 2024 at 4:31 PM PDT
