The amount of gaslighting that comes from Democrats on any given day of the week is truly a sight to behold, and that goes double when you’re California Gov. Gavin Newsom boasting about all the state has allegedly done under his “leadership” to combat homelessness – when he’s not trying to hide the homeless, that is.
The latest example comes courtesy of a press conference Newsom held earlier this week in which he touted the release of over $3 billion from a voter-approved ballot measure, which he said would go towards mental health services:
Hammered by mounting pressure to address the growing homelessness crisis in California, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Tuesday his administration will make $3.3 billion available ahead of schedule for counties and private developers to start building more behavioral health treatment centers as part of his efforts to fund housing and drug use programs.It’s the first pot of money from a ballot measure designed to help cities, counties, tribes and developers build or renovate treatment centers and clinics, among other things. Voters passed it by a razor-thin margin in March after Newsom threw all of his political weight behind it, touting it as linchpin of the state’s efforts to reduce homelessness.[…]Newsom, standing in front of an ongoing construction project that would create 117 psychiatric beds near Redwood City, said Tuesday he wants local government to build as quickly as they can.“It’s time to do your job. It’s time to get things done,” Newsom said. “You asked for these reforms, we’ve provided them. Now it’s time to deliver.” –
It was classic Newsom, bragging about how much money he’s throwing at the homeless problem while expecting everyone else to fix it.
During the presser, Newsom also declared that California’s latest attempt at solving the homeless problem was a “national model”:
Towards the end of his address, Newsom said, “If there’s any good news – and I’ll close on this officially – the state of California has seen a decline in veteran’s homelessness. We have a national model. What Proposition 1 did is it reinforced that model, provided more resources to advance that model, and we’re very excited to get those dollars to work.”Despite Newsom’s optimism, the state’s overall homeless population continued to rise. It was reported in April that the number is up 6%, compared to last year.Last year, a study found that the state has around one-third of the entire nation’s homeless population.
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Well, I can’t speak much on the “new” plan but the old plans promoted by Newsom going back nearly 30 years to when he was first elected to serve on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors have failed and failed miserably.
December 2023, for instance, was the 20th anniversary of newly-elected Mayor-Elect Newsom’s proposed 10-year plan to end homelessness in San Francisco.
In December 2003, here’s what he promised:
San Francisco Mayor-elect Gavin Newsom intends to “aggressively” make homelessness his administration’s No. 1 priority, and his first moves will include creating a 10-year plan for ending chronic homelessness and going after “tens of millions” of new dollars in federal funding.In an interview with The Chronicle, Newsom said he also plans to create within six months about 550 units of new “supportive housing” for troubled homeless people and to make city agencies collect numbers on exactly how many homeless are getting which services, so he can better determine what the most pressing needs are.”I recognize that I’m setting myself up. I’m not naïve to that,” Newsom said in the Friday interview. “I don’t want to over-promise, but I also don’t want to under-deliver. I want to hit the ground running.”
He was still talking about that plan five years later as the homeless problem worsened:
The contrasts between what he said then and now are pretty astonishing:
The photos and videos speak for themselves:
As do the stats:
On a related note via Fox News national correspondent Bill Melugin:
The city of Santa Monica has approved a new apartment complex for the homeless that will cost a staggering $1 million per unit. The $123 million project will include just 122 units. It was approved days after an audit found California spent $24 billion to tackle homelessness between 2018-2023, but did not consistently track whether that massive outpouring of public money actually did anything to help the problem. It hasn’t. The homeless count in CA has only gone up and the problem has only gotten worse.
And the quote of the day goes to:
Indeed.
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