Fresno praised for work combating homelessness, receives more funding

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- An audit released earlier this period provided a scathing reappraisal of the state's oversight of efforts to tackle homelessness.

Over the past 5 years, the authorities spent 24 cardinal dollars to tackle homelessness; however, the effectiveness and outcomes of the programs haven't been tracked, according to the audit.

The study besides recovered that the California Inter-Agency Council connected Homelessness stopped tracking programme spending successful 2021.

Governor Gavin Newsom said connected Thursday that the authorities volition grow California's Housing Accountability Unit to see much assertive enforcement of lodging laws and reassign unit to the unit.

Although authorities oversight appears to beryllium lacking, Fresno leaders and organizations receiving the funds accidental they clasp themselves accountable.

"We enactment manus successful manus with the metropolis of Fresno," said Zack Darrah, Poverello House CEO.

"Every azygous penny and dollar is, is scrutinized each the mode to the you know, to this receipt, oregon that receipt, typically going done 1,000s of pages, each azygous period of what dollars are being spent connected and what the impacts are of those dollars."

On Thursday, it was announced that Fresno would person different 10.9 cardinal dollars successful Encampment Resolution Fund, oregon ERF grants.

Mayor Jerry Dyer and Governor Newsom accidental the further backing is simply a grounds to the prime of enactment being done successful Fresno and their accounting for the work.

"It truly speaks to our efforts; our successes," said Dyer.

"Over the past 3 years we've housed 3,445 stateless radical successful our community, and that's a bully feeling. Apparently, we person 800 successful our shelters, but we person a agelong mode to spell still."

"That's truly the tone of of driving this concern of accountability we instrumentality that accountability earnestly ourselves but we request to beforehand that astatine the region levels and the metropolis levels," said Newsom. "Jerry does not request to beryllium told that he's done an bonzer occupation successful Fresno."

Poverello House has been the steward of ERF funds. Darrah said they instrumentality that work incredibly seriously.

"The enactment we bash each azygous day, we're seeing people's lives are transformed idiosyncratic by idiosyncratic by person," said Darrah.

"And this backing from the authorities has made generational impacts successful our assemblage and Fresno."

With the latest backing Fresno volition person received much than $33 cardinal successful Encampment Resolution Funds.

The politician says the wealth volition beryllium utilized to physique different 95 exigency structure beds implicit the adjacent 2 years and prosecute 16 much employees.

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