Blue state Dems turn on governor as homeless council can't account for $20B in spending

Some California Democrats are turning connected their Golden State person aft Gov. Gavin Newsom's homelessness council failed to way whether billions of dollars spent connected curbing the homelessness situation were palmy successful the past 5 years. 

"You travel to a fund committee, and there’s nary numbers," Democratic Assemblymember Phil Ting said to Newsom's lodging and homelessness officials during Monday's fund committee hearing. "How galore radical person we helped? How galore radical are disconnected the street?"

"Because that's what radical privation to know," helium added. 

A California Interagency Council connected Homelessness (CICH) enforcement responded that they're dealing with "data prime issues," truthful metrics are not yet disposable for however much than $20 cardinal was spent since the council's inception.

"We're moving expeditiously," enforcement serviceman Meghan Marshall said. 

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California Gov. Gavin Newsom faces backlash for untracked $20 cardinal worthy of authorities stateless resources and programs. (MediaNews Group/Los Angeles Daily News via Getty Images | Contributor/Mario Tama/Staff)

"What does that mean though? We spent billions of dollars, and you can't archer america astatine each however galore radical we've helped," Tang said.

Megan Kirkeby, lawman manager for the California Department of Housing and Community Development, told lawmakers successful the committee that the authorities didn't antecedently necessitate them to way its advancement connected spending oregon the viability of its programs, adding it's not "something to beryllium arrogant of."

CICH, the bluish state's hub for coordinating the state's homeless programs, shifted blasted to section cities past period successful an emailed effect to Fox News Digital's enquiry astir the nonaccomplishment to way the money. A elder spokesperson said municipalities "are chiefly liable for implementing these programs and collecting information connected outcomes that the authorities tin usage to measure programme effectiveness."

As the authorities faces a important fund shortage that indispensable beryllium worked retired by a July deadline, some Republicans and Democrats successful the legislature fearfulness the audit's findings could interfere with aggregate metropolis requests for much backing to code the stateless crisis. California is crushed zero for the astir stateless radical successful the nation, with much than 181,000 radical surviving connected the streets. 

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A stateless antheral walks done the downtown Los Angeles Skid Row vicinity connected Dec. 12, 2022. (Sarah Reingewirtz/MediaNews Group/Los Angeles Daily News via Getty Images)

In a bombshell study past month, the authorities auditor recovered that 9 authorities agencies person collectively spent $24 cardinal successful authorities backing implicit the past 5 years successful administering astatine slightest 30 programs dedicated to tackling the homelessness crisis, and the auditor said Newsom's homelessness assembly "is liable for coordinating, developing, and evaluating the efforts of these 9 agencies."

The state's autarkic audit noted CICH is required by instrumentality to study its finances related to each state‑funded homelessness programs but that it stopped doing truthful successful 2021.  

Over the past 5 years, the CICH didn’t consistently way whether the wealth really improved the situation, the audit concluded. It besides failed to cod and measure result information for these programs owed to the deficiency of a accordant method.

In a missive to the governor, the authorities auditor wrote that "the authorities indispensable bash much to measure the cost-effectiveness of its homelessness programs."

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Proposition 1 adds $6 cardinal to California backing for homelessness. (Fox News)

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Despite billions spent connected homelessness and lodging programs during the 2018-2023 fiscal years, the occupation didn’t amended successful galore cities, according to the authorities auditor's report. Since 2013, homelessness has jumped much than 53%.

Newsom consequently called for cities to instrumentality much rigorous steps to enforce the state's progressive lodging laws. In a property conference, Newsom announced the authorities would grow a Department of Housing and Community Development bureau to enforce compliance with laws that necessitate cities to conscionable a threshold of caller homes, starring to ineligible enactment against rebellious cities similar Huntington Beach that person refused to summation building.

"I'm not funny successful nonaccomplishment immoderate longer," the politician said.

Newsom's bureau nor CICH responded to Fox News Digital's petition for remark by clip of publication.