False Claim: ‘Governor Newsom has done little to solve the homelessness problem’
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Since Governor Newsom took office through 2023, 471,372 housing units have been completed in the state.
- The Governor created the Housing Accountability Unit to hold local governments accountable to ensure they are meeting their housing goals.
- The accountability unit has taken over 800 accountability actions, including suing local governments to ensure affordable housing is built and goals are met.
- Increased accountability is tied to each new round of funding to address homelessness and housing availability.
- Californians can use the transparency website accountability.ca.gov to see how much funding their county received from certain major state investments and whether or not they have implemented new tools provided by the state.
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FALSE CLAIM: $24 billion for homelessness went missing, no one knows where it went.
That’s flat-out false.
FALSE CLAIM: Homelessness is growing faster under the Newsom Administration
In California, unsheltered population grew almost 4x faster from 2014-2019 (before Newsom Admin) than during the Newsom Administration.
Homelessness is NOT increasing in California faster than anywhere else in the country.
Homelessness in California increased just 3.13%, while the nation saw a 18.13% increase.