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By Senator Brian Jones
… The homelessness crisis did not spread “across the West Coast,” and it is not a “national” crisis affecting all 50 states equally. In fact, the homeless crisis is far greater in California than in EVERY OTHER STATE COMBINED.
… this state’s elected leaders have not invested in programs to address its root causes. …
Further, California has a housing problem, yet Democrats have gone out of their way to make building apartments and homes ever more difficult by creating multi-year processes for dealing with environmental reports and imposing ridiculously high permitting fees and mountains of regulations. …
… Homelessness in California is largely a homegrown problem, created by decades of misguided policies imposed by decades of a one-party Democratic rule. It is a problem that fairly can be said to be fully owned by California’s elected Democrats.
California Governor Gavin Newsom is beginning his 10th year as a statewide elected official. During all that time, the homelessness problem has continued to grow greater each year. …
… I am requesting the Joint Legislative Audit Committee (JLAC) to conduct a statewide audit of homelessness spending in California. Even the Governor’s Homelessness Task Force recognized the need to evaluate past and current homelessness spending. …
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