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· Dec 13, 2020

Who in the CA state gov is focused primarily on solving homelessness?

It's Management 101 that when nobody is responsible, there is little accountability. It appears that nobody - not a single employee of CA - is being evaluated primarily on their ability to solve homelessness. As in - if things get worse, nobody is fired. (2/x)

Walters: The five issues that should top California’s 2020 agenda

Our state has a $202B budget.

@GavinNewsom

's State of the Union was almost entirely focused on Homelessness. Poll after poll shows it as a top issue in CA. (3/x)

mercurynews.com

As the Legislature reconvenes, lawmakers and Gov. Gavin Newsom have work to do on pressing problems.

We should have an entire department focused on this issue! If we have a $202B budget, and it's our top issue as a state - I would expect that we spend 5-10%+ of our budget. Why aren't we spending $10-20B to tackle this? (4/x)

We have ~150,000 homeless in CA. A $10B budget would cost ~$70k/person. This seems reasonable given the exorbitant cost of psychiatric care. Instead, it seems like SF, LA and various other cities are left to deal with this alone. (5/x)

This is taxation without representation. The taxes of SF's millionaires and billionaires are going to state & federal coffers. Top CA state tax is 13.3%. The CA budget is 15x that of SF. Yet we are expected to pay for housing for 8,000 people? How?? (6/x)

Jesse Powell

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