Tax dollars are helping combat homelessness in Fresno, Dyer says

FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - More than $25 cardinal successful assistance awards has been awarded to the Fresno and Madera regions to combat homelessness, Governor Gavin Newsom announced Tuesday.

Newsom provided 37 assistance awards totaling much than $827 cardinal successful what his bureau says is to assistance much than 100 section communities and organizations to make semipermanent solutions to code homelessness.

The Fresno and Madera regions volition person $25.76 cardinal and the Kings and Tulare regions volition person $4.14 million.

In a property league connected Tuesday, Newsom said that helium has been moving intimately with Fresno's Mayor Jerry Dyer and says that the metropolis has been doing an outstanding job.

Dyer says that it's ever bully to beryllium recognized by the politician and his bureau for immoderate of the bully enactment that they are doing successful the city. He says each azygous time successful Fresno teams spell retired to marque definite to person cleanable areas and areas escaped of the unsheltered population.

"The information is, the authorities dollars person been supporting galore of our efforts that person led to our successes and the information that we person been capable to structure implicit 7,000 successful the past 3 and fractional years," Dyer said. "Over fractional of those to beryllium capable to modulation to imperishable lodging tells america and surely the politician is alert of it, that we're making singular success."

Dyer says that it's 1 happening to displace radical and it is different happening to connection them services and resources.

According to Dyer, the politician and helium agreed connected however to code the stateless population.

Dyer says erstwhile Newsom recognizes Fresno's enactment helium is astir apt to grant the city, and helium has. He says that Newsom is supportive of the authorities and has provided the backing that is needed to combat homelessness.

"The wealth that is provided to america from the state, has originated from the section level, the taxation dollars. So it is important those taxation dollars beryllium returned to section jurisdictions," Dyer said.

Dyer says the backing is captious to beryllium provided to the city.

According to the governor's office, arsenic a information of receiving the funding, the awardees indispensable hold to accrued accountability, transparency, and compliance measures.