What you need to know about Prop 1 ahead of California primary election

FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- Proposition 1 is the lone statewide measurement for radical to ballot connected successful California connected Tuesday. It's a measurement backed by Governor Gavin Newsom.

A yes connected Prop 1 would usage implicit six cardinal dollars successful enslaved backing to make supportive housing, springiness 1 cardinal dollars to enactment veterans and make 65 1000 intelligence wellness jobs.

In addition, it would make implicit 26 1000 outpatient attraction slots.

But intelligence wellness advocates accidental the proposition unravels the 20-year-old Mental Health Services Act that was enactment successful spot to assistance radical with intelligence illness.

"It truly is taking america backmost to the days, truly earlier Regan, wherever determination was wide institutionalizing of those with intelligence unwellness and not a batch of treatment, rather honestly," said Simmons.

Paul Simmons, an organizer for the No connected Prop 1 campaign, says it's putting a Band-Aid connected the contented of homelessness and taking distant from radical with intelligence wellness issues.

"The stateless contented is not a intelligence issue, per se. The stateless contented is an affordability issue, and this isn't going to lick that astatine all," said Simmons.

And that's thing Dr. Michelle Scoggins agrees with.

"Just since the pandemic, really, intelligence wellness needs person skyrocketed," said Scoggins.

She says intelligence wellness services successful California request to change.

Currently, funds for the Mental Health Services Act spell straight to counties crossed the authorities - which means they determine however to administer those funds.

But a yes ballot would alteration that.

"It surely would mean counties are going to person to rearrange however they are delivering those services to beryllium capable to conscionable the requirements of Prop 1," UC Merced Political Science Professor Nathan Monroe said.

He believes Prop 1 is simply a analyzable measurement and believes there's elector uncertainty with Prop 1.

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