Morning Report: Newsom Pumps the Brakes on Homelessness Funding

Morning Report: Newsom Pumps the Brakes on Homelessness Funding

During Gov. Gavin Newsom’s final annual address to the Legislature this week, he announced that the state’s principal homelessness program will get $500 million.  That’s half the $1 billion that has been allocated for the program annually since 2019, reports our Nadia Lathan, except for this year when it was gutted completely.  Service providers were disappointed by the news. Newsom previously suggested he needs to see more results before commit…