His proposal called Medi-Cal Healthier California for All will address the many problems affecting chronically unsheltered individuals. It will provide funding for tenancy support services, housing navigation services and recuperative care. It will also provide targeted rental assistance if a person’s housing insecurity is related to expenses due to costly health care services.
In a statement, Gov. Newsom said, “The State of California is treating homelessness as a real emergency – because it is one. Californians are demanding that all levels of government – federal, state and local – do more to get people off the streets and into services – whether that’s housing, mental health services, substance abuse treatment or all of the above.”
“That’s why we’re using every tool in the toolbox – from proposing a massive new infusion of state dollars in the budget that goes directly to homeless individuals’ emergency housing and treatment programs, to building short-term emergency housing on vacant state-owned land,” he added.
