{"id":193931,"date":"2025-07-23T15:39:51","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T22:39:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=193931"},"modified":"2025-07-23T15:45:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T22:45:10","slug":"even-with-the-300k-per-unit-cost-governor-newsom-touts-progress-in-reducing-homelessness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=193931","title":{"rendered":"Even with $300k per Unit Cost Governor Newsom Touts Progress in Reducing Homelessness"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sacramento, CA…Building on the administration\u2019s efforts to reverse decades of inaction on housing and homelessness, Governor Newsom today announced continued signs of progress in California. In 2024, California outperformed the nation in slowing down the increase in homelessness<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0Last year, while the nation\u2019s unsheltered homelessness increased by nearly 7%, California\u2019s remained nearly flat, increasing by only 0.45%.\u00a0With new preliminary 2025 point-in-time reporting from some of the state\u2019s largest communities, California is seeing ongoing progress and reductions in homelessness in many communities.<\/p>\n

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\u201cNo one in our nation should be without a place to call home. I am proud of the work we are doing together to reverse this decades-old crisis. Together, we are turning the tide on homelessness, but we have more work to do. We have a moral obligation to assist every single Californian in need and that means ensuring that everyone has a roof over their head.\u201d<\/p>\n

Governor Gavin Newsom<\/small><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Communities reporting reduced homelessness<\/b><\/h4>\n

Each year local governments conduct point-in-time counts in January with final numbers reported in December. While the preliminary data reported by communities has not yet been verified by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, initial reporting by locals is encouraging.<\/p>\n

Communities across California are beginning to see a substantial decrease in the unsheltered homelessness numbers, indicating a strong trend that people experiencing homelessness are accepting shelter, programs, services and housing, in part as a result of unprecedented state investments. California communities are making good progress in getting people off the streets and out of encampments and connecting them with the care they need.<\/p>\n

For example, the\u00a0city of San Diego saw a 3.9% decrease\u00a0<\/b>in unsheltered homelessness and total homelessness down 13.5%. The\u00a0county of Riverside reported a 19% decrease<\/b>\u00a0in unsheltered homelessness.<\/p>\n

In the Los Angeles region, unsheltered homelessness has dropped for two years in a row<\/b>. Preliminary data for 2025 shows that Los Angeles county is expected to report that total homelessness went down by 4%, with unsheltered homelessness reducing by 9.5%. The city of Los Angeles reported that its total homelessness also decreased by 3.4% and unsheltered homelessness went down by 7.9%.<\/p>\n

Continuums of care serving regional jurisdictions also reported promising news. In San Bernardino county, total homelessness dropped 10.2%, and San Diego county\u2019s total homeless population dropped by 7%. The Bakersfield region also saw a decrease, reducing the number of people experiencing homelessness by 2.3%.<\/p>\n

Reversing a decades-in-the-making crisis<\/b><\/h4>\n

The Newsom administration is making significant progress in\u00a0reversing decades of inaction on homelessness<\/a>. Between 2014 and 2019\u2014before Governor Newsom took office\u2014unsheltered homelessness in California rose by approximately 37,000 people. Since then, under this Administration, California has significantly slowed that growth, even as many other states have seen worsening trends.<\/p>\n

In 2024, while homelessness increased nationally by over 18%, California limited its overall increase to just 3% \u2014 a lower rate than in 40 other states. The state also held the growth of unsheltered homelessness to just 0.45%, compared to a national increase of nearly 7%. States like Florida, Texas, New York, and Illinois saw larger increases both in percentage and absolute numbers. California also achieved the nation\u2019s largest reduction in veteran homelessness and made meaningful progress in reducing youth homelessness.<\/p>\n

New strategies that work<\/b><\/h4>\n

Since taking office in 2019, Governor Newsom has created\u00a0unprecedented policy and structural changes<\/a>\u00a0in state government to help California better address its housing and homelessness crises, including additional and unprecedented\u00a0support for local governments<\/a>,\u00a0stronger accountability<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0enforcement<\/a>, transformational\u00a0changes to mental health services<\/a>\u00a0and state government, and\u00a0groundbreaking reforms<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sacramento, CA…Building on the administration\u2019s efforts to reverse decades of inaction on housing and homelessness, Governor Newsom today announced continued signs of progress in California. In 2024, California outperformed the nation in slowing down the increase in homelessness.\u00a0\u00a0Last year, while the nation\u2019s unsheltered homelessness increased by nearly 7%, California\u2019s remained nearly flat, increasing by only […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":187475,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-government","category-news","last_archivepost"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Newsom25.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=193931"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":193934,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193931\/revisions\/193934"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/187475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=193931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=193931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=193931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}