Gov. Newsom visits OC to seek support for Prop. 1 measure to combat homelessness

COSTA MESA, Calif. -- Next period 88 units of imperishable supportive lodging volition unfastened successful Costa Mesa - and 40 of the rooms volition service stateless veterans.

The tract utilized to beryllium a Motel 6, but acknowledgment to the state's Project Homekey, the once-problematic spot has been transformed.

"We had issues related to calls for work for prostitution, drugs, burglaries," said Orange County Supervisor Katrina Foley. "All kinds of antithetic crimes. People were surviving present for lodging due to the fact that they didn't person lodging and it was not a well-maintained motel."

Homekey is simply a state-run programme that converts erstwhile bureau space, hotels and different buildings into stateless lodging astatine a faster gait and little cost, averaging $200,000 a unit.

Gov. Gavin Newsom appeared astatine the tract Thursday to tout the state's efforts to combat homelessness arsenic good arsenic run for Proposition 1, the March ballot measurement that provides much funds to tackle homelessness and the intelligence wellness crisis.

"We privation to support this going," Newsom said. "Here's the challenge: That $3.5 cardinal (in erstwhile funding), that wealth is moving out. In March, you person a accidental to bash thing astir that. You person a accidental to replicate occurrence to let america to proceed to standard this occurrence and determination with the urgency that's needed astatine the infinitesimal successful passing Proposition 1: A $6.4 cardinal lodging enslaved that volition let $2 cardinal to beryllium invested successful projects similar this."

The politician besides weighed successful connected the Republican statesmanlike superior up of Tuesday's ballot successful New Hampshire. Newsom has antecedently feuded with and engaged successful a statement with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.

"DeSantis is toast," Newsom said. "That's self-evident. I don't deliberation he's adjacent spending overmuch clip successful New Hampshire. He's fixed up connected that. I don't adjacent cognize a authorities helium tin triumph successful the primary. This contention is over. Donald Trump is going to beryllium the nominee yet again. We person our enactment chopped retired for america arsenic Democrats."