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Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Friday that the authorities volition assistance 18 cities $131 million to wide stateless encampments and supply shelter, attraction and enactment - 1 of those cities is successful the Central Valley.
The grants are a portion of the state’s $1 cardinal Encampment Resolution Funds. Visalia was awarded $3 million.
“We’re supporting section communities’ efforts to get radical retired of encampments and connected with attraction and lodging crossed the state. It’s important and urgent enactment that requires everyone to bash their part. The authorities has committed much than $27 cardinal to assistance section governments tackle the homelessness situation — and we privation to spot $27 cardinal worthy of results,” Newsom said successful a statement.
The metropolis of Sacramento volition person the astir backing astatine $18 million.
Award recipients volition request to adhere “to each authorities lodging and stateless laws — arsenic good arsenic stay successful compliance with their Housing Elements — oregon hazard losing backing and look different enforcement actions,” said Newsom.
In July, Newsom signed an enforcement order, which, among different things, allowed authorities and section officials to dismantle stateless encampments.
The enforcement bid was issued successful effect to a Supreme Court determination successful precocious June that granted officials authorization to region the encampments and summons radical for camping successful nationalist successful Grants Pass, Oregon.
While Newsom cannot unit section authorities to act, his medication tin use unit by withholding wealth for counties and cities.
Here’s the afloat database of cities and communities that received funding:
- City of Antioch - $6,812,686
- City of Berkeley - $5,395,637
- City of Carlsbad - $2,994,225
- City of Los Angeles - $11,351,281
- City of Palm Springs - $5,106,731
- City of Petaluma - $8,098,978
- City of Redlands — $5,341,800
- City of Richmond —- $9,336,746
- City of Sacramento — $18,199,661
- City of San Jose —- $4,821,083
- City of Victorville — $6,365,070
- City of Visalia —- $3,000,000
- County of Contra Costa —- $5,708,516
- County of Riverside — $12,612,779
- County of San Bernardino — $11,000,000
- City and County of San Francisco - $7,975,486
- Humboldt County — Continuum of Care - $3,784,294
- Pasadena – Continuum of Care - $2,772,801
