As California Homeless Count Rises to 186K, Newsom Faces Call for Accountability

As California’s homeless population rises to a CalMatters-estimated 186,000, Republican legislators are demanding that Gov. Gavin Newsom sign a bill requiring the state to track homelessness spending and outcomes. AB 2903 by Assemblymember Josh Hoover, R-Folsom, passed without any opposing votes, and would require any “state agency or department that administers one or more state homelessness programs” to report “cost and outcome data for each program the agency or department administers” to the California Interagency Council on Homelessness. ICH would then be required to make those costs and outcomes available to the public.