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“All that money is accounted for,” the assertion continued, showing to reference the funds Jones had claimed had been “lost.”
“The audit confirmed that beforehand not all state packages required locals to report how these {dollars} improved homelessness for the latest years and lacked information to check the effectiveness of 1 program versus one other. That’s been mounted.
“This administration has added strong accountability and reporting requirements for local governments that receive state funding. Any notion that we don’t know where the money went is preposterous, and that’s not what the audit reported,” the assertion stated.
The report additionally cited that Illinois, Wyoming, Hawaii and Colorado had been the states the place household homelessness doubled or worse.
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“As the Governor has said many times, the work is far from over and urgency and results at the local level are needed more than ever. It’s why new accountability tools have been put in place, for quicker results. It’s also a longer-term effort — through implementation of Prop 1, CARE Court, conservatorship reform, the just approved BH-Connect waiver all of which are aimed at addressing the systemic issues of homelessness but not yet fully online.”
California’s 14% homelessness enhance in 2023 additionally fell under the nationwide enhance of 21%, the governor’s workplace added within the assertion launched simply earlier than this 12 months’s numbers.
“Since the governor is committed to gaslighting on this issue, we’ll state the obvious: an increase of 20% is not progress,” their assertion learn.
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Metropolis of San Francisco employees take away a homeless encampment within the Bayview neighborhood in San Francisco, on Aug. 1. (David Paul Morris/Bloomberg by way of Getty Photographs)
Jones, the Senate minority chief, cited Friday that he co-sponsored bipartisan laws to alter California’s homelessness insurance policies and deal with “compassionate enforcement” of encampment violations.
The invoice would have delayed any indictment on that depend for 72 hours after first discover and imposed a “state-mandated local program” for homeless people in these conditions.
“Homelessness continues to rise and increase at ever-higher numbers nationwide, but we are seeing signs of progress in California,” he stated.
“We have turned the tide on a decades-long increase in homelessness – but we have more work to do. California‘s plan is ambitious and challenging but the data is proving that it is not impossible: our strategies are making a positive difference.”
Information additionally confirmed different large-population states like New York, Florida, Illinois and Texas additionally suffered a better development in unsheltered homelessness than California’s, which the governor’s workplace stated was underneath one %.
