San Diego Mayor pushes CA to make homeless funding permanent [Video]

SAN DIEGO — San Diego Mayor Todd Gloria visited Sacramento on Tuesday to advocate for permanent homelessness funding. 

He led a bipartisan coalition of 13 mayors from California’s biggest cities in urging Gov. Gavin Newsom and the state legislature to commit at least $1 billion a year to the state’s primary homelessness program on an ongoing basis.

Money from the Homelessness Housing, Assistance and Prevention Program has served close to 150,000 people and created more than 15,700 emergency shelter beds and interim homes, according to a report by the Big City Mayors.

“The shelters and service programs that big cities up and down California have created with local and state dollars are getting people off the street and connected to care. We need to protect the progress we’ve made through continued state investment,” Gloria said in a press release.

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