Eight projects in the cities of Oakland and Santa Cruz, and the counties of Marin, Monterey and Santa Cruz will receive $54.9 million in state funds to help unsheltered homeless people move from encampments into housing.
The projects are among 20 statewide receiving almost $192 million in Encampment Resolution Fund grants, the California Interagency Council on Homelessness announced Thursday.
“This new funding will get people out of tents and into housing across California,” Gov. Gavin Newsom said in a statement. “As the state provides unprecedented resources like this, we also expect accountability. Local governments must ensure this funding – and all homeless funding – is getting people out of encampments.”
Here are the Bay Area projects:
— The city of Oakland will receive $7,216,307 in collaboration with Alameda County to resolve long-standing encampments at Martin Luther King Jr. and 23rd Street, Mosswood Park, and East 12th Street.
— The city of Santa Cruz will receive $4,032,184 to serve 55 people and house 30 by adding 20 new non-congregate housing units, permanent supportive housing vouchers, and expanding outreach and navigation services.
— Marin County will receive $5,999,241 to serve 65 people and house 46 from the community’s largest encampment at the greater Mahon Creek Path area in San Rafael.
— Marin County will also receive $8,678,324 to serve 60 people, mostly Latinx farm workers and their families, and house 60 people in a new RV interim housing site in Bolinas and support the construction of 27 new permanent housing units.
— Marin County will additionally receive $3,720,706 to serve 110 people and house 90 people by building off a previous ERF-funded project and adding additional staff and interim shelter options to resolve an encampment along a state right-of-way at Binford Road in unincorporated Novato.
— Monterey County will receive $4,726,963 to work with the city of Salinas to provide services to 40 people and house 30 to resolve an encampment in the Salinas Riverbed that is along a state right-of-way.
— Monterey County will receive $6,441,326 to complete a permanent housing project that will house 46 persons currently in interim housing.
— San Mateo County will receive $14,134,200 to serve 211 people and house 108 from an encampment along a state right-of-way.
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Waste of money. Give us our tax money back so we can do better with it. A better idea would be use that money to start construction on a mental/homeless asylum on Alcatraz I know it’s contaminated, but it’s a perfect spot to put all of them. Another good spot would be the landfill by Mountain View.
“… we also expect accountability. Local governments must ensure this funding – and all homeless funding – is getting people out of encampments.”” How is this being tracked? They should have a dashboard like the one used during Covid. Showing number of people in the encampment, then as dollars are spent show the reduction in the encampment size. The also need a policy to address the people that refuse to get off the streets and a policy for when a new person shows up to an encampment. If the new person is not from the area, give them transportation to go back to where they came from. We shouldn’t be spending our tax money on people coming from Kansas.
I’d love to see something like that. Too much of this money gets sucked up by all these non-profits. It seems to never find its way to where it’s supposed to go.
Let us have a show of mice if you believe it will work, . . . . . . this time fur-sure.
Given His Imperial Majesty Emperor newsom’s many years as “public servant”
one would expect he would have figured out how to solve problems.
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CA, a magnet for homeless,
“A self-proclaimed’ old-school junkie’ who moved from Texas to San Francisco because ‘it’s f*****g easy’ to be homeless there claims he’s being paid by the city government to live on the streets, getting $620 in cash per month and hundreds of food stamps while he sells Narcan and enjoys Amazon Prime and Netflix on his phone.
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‘This right now is literally by choice, literally by choice. If we’re going to be realistic, they pay you to be homeless here,’ James, a homeless man with face tattoos who has been living in San Francisco since June…” …
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“…it only took one phone call to receive government assistance, including hundreds in cash and food stamps worth approximately $100, and notes that the ‘free money’ is motivation to remain homeless.”
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YUP, . . . . . . this time fur-sure.
It I’ll never work…. (Yes pessimistic) because it is just throwing money at the problem. The problem is mostly DRUGS and Alcohol, and these people don’t want help. They want freebies and no accountability.
I’ll just be over here, until they figure out that they have to criminalize the drug and alcohol problem and force people into treatment, and if they fail at that x amount of times ( chances) then it is off to jail/prison.
This housing was what we once called “the projects”, just another money pit for CA taxpayers…
people with horrible decision making skills, no accountability, and lack self awareness cannot be given anything for free. the majority will take the handout and ride it out until it runs out and then just be to where they were. there needs to vagrancy laws, no camping ordinances, public drunkeness, etc… put in place coupled with drug testing and substance abuse counseling to go with the free handout…..but the willing addict-alcoholic-homeless person will never be helped
I thought you were talking about the politicians….
Poor Marin county, they only get $54,000 per person. That is not enough to live in Mill Valley. Can Congress add more to next Ukrainian handout?
I hope they’re already planning the next Ukraine aid package. I personally don’t want them to have to wait.
… another waste of our taxpayer $$ … no accountability in how its spent despite what they may claim… and of course that’s after the administrative red tape is skimmed off the top along with someone’s pet projects
Homelessness is a lifestyle choice. I saw it constantly as a paramedic in east bay. This is another huge waste of money.
How about a “serious’ study of how we got into this condition…and then provide “serious” solutions to address them….. my fear is that they simply do not know how…
Too much of a difference between the highest paid and the lowest paid. According to studies only about 20% of homeless have drug or mental problems. The rest have bad luck and in some cases fortunately it’s only temporary.
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But one can’t convince the crowd here who think all homeless are on drugs and are mental cases. The fact is our economic system sucks and most likely about to crash big time. So you may find yourself homeless. And yes I agree that officials have no clue on how to fix it that is without some drastic economic changes.
The vast majority of that money will go towards the grifters and cockroaches working in the homeless industrial complex. It is not in the interests of those people to develop and solutions to lessen or even end homelessness, because then they would be out of work themselves.
Homelessness can be traced back to Democrat policies and regulations, if anyone bothers to look back far enough.
Jeez all the negativity…. You complain about people living in encampments and then complain when they finally get a plan to get them off the street. It does actually cost taxpayers LESS to house the homeless than to continue keeping them in shelters. Chill for all our sakes.
I’m sorry that you were lied to, Suzanne, but this is not a plan to end homelessness. There was never a plan to end homelessness. This is a plan to pump taxpayer-paid funds into the homeless industry.
Money continues to be thrown at it. There are no controls, solutions or successes. It’s strictly a money pit with no accountability.
All efforts to date are just talk.
We know this grift
That’s a dead end comment Sue,sorry…..doesn’t allow muc room for constructive conversation.
Jail use to work. The druggies get clean and the mentally ill get hospitalized..
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