Following Gov. Gavin Newsom’s announcement Nov. 3 that the state would be pausing the third round of homeless grants to local jurisdictions, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti called the move “perplexing.”
The Homelessness Housing, Assistance, and Prevention grants, which amounted to $1 billion, would help address the lack of homeless housing across the state, according to Newsom.
Newsom paused the funding distribution to call for “more aggressive action on homelessness,” he said in a statement Nov. 3. Housing plans across the state—resulting in double-digit increases in some counties’ homelessness and a 2 percent decrease statewide over four years, the governor said—are “failing.”…