Posted on 03/20/2023 3:07:16 PM PDT by nickcarraway
California voters would decide whether to fund a major expansion of housing and treatment for residents suffering from mental illness and addiction, under the latest proposal by Gov. Gavin Newsom to address the state's homelessness crisis.
Newsom announced Sunday that he will ask allies in the Democratic-controlled Legislature for a measure on the 2024 ballot to authorize funding to build residential facilities where up to 12,000 people a year could live and be treated. The plan is the latest by the governor who took office in 2019 vowing to own the issue of homelessness in a state where an estimated 171,000 were unhoused last year.
The governor called the plan the next step in how California expands services for unhoused people, especially those with psychological and substance use disorders.
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Build huge asylums, and lock them up on Lithium IV drips and Valium. Get the cities’ streets and parks cleaned-up.
So, California is going to provide beds for the 30 million or so people in California who suffer from the mental disease known as liberalism?
The first patients should be the Governor, AG, the entire state legislature, and the Board of Supervisors of San Francisco. Start there, then we will talk.
Wow, a plan for the homeless and drug addicted I could support. That is amazing.
Good, California desperately needs mental health.
But with a population of over 39 million, where are they going to find that many beds?
looks like what is left in California when all the normal people left the state. I was born and raised there.
I escaped in 1979. We should have never let Democrats in our state.
I have read in many articles that millions upon millions have been spent on the homeless with very little making it to the people themselves...rather they have multiple employees co ordinating housing projects that fail..or never come to fuition ...this is another skim/graft money pit. This is what should have been done initially. But now they will expand another government agency and staff it ...after they had ended such facilities in the 70’s and 80’s because of it being cruel.
For some reason the voters haven't figured out this is how the Homeless Industrial Complex works.
Reopen the mental hospitals closed down in the late 1960s and 1970s!
It has only taken 50 years for their idea of closing them down to come back and bite them in the butt. Actually it only took ten years(when mass killings by crazies took off) but the other forty they thought they could deal with it.
Theres not enough beds in the country to take care of all the druggies and mentally ill in California.
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