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In a state audit, released in early April, it was revealed that California spent $24 billion to tackle homelessness over the past five years, yet did not consistently track how exactly the huge ...

To address the crisis, the state allocated nearly $24 billion over the past five years to fund at least 30 homeless and housing programs during the last five fiscal years (2018-2023).

California is now home to more than a third of the nation’s homeless population, despite Gov. Gavin Newsom’s (D-CA) $24 billion bid to solve the crisis. After a state audit revealed California ...

California failed to track the effectiveness of its billion-dollar spending on homelessness programs and "must do more to assess the cost-effectiveness of its homelessness programs," according to ...

A state audit has found that California spent $24 billion to tackle homelessness over a five year period but didn’t consistently track the outcomes or effectiveness of its programs. The report released Tuesday, April 9, 2024, attempts to assess how effective the state and local cities have been spending billions of dollars to address the ...

The California State Auditor yesterday issued a scathing report on how very broken are the state’s homeless programs. In the last five years, the state has spent about $24 billion dollars trying to eradicate – or at least lessen – California’s enormous homelessness problem.

California spent $24 billion on the state’s homeless crisis over the past five years, but it did not consistently track whether the enormous amount of spending was making a dent in the problem, a state audit has found. ... Billions of taxpayer dollars were spent on more than 30 homeless and housing programs between 2018 and 2023, yet ...

Tuesday’s audit comes just weeks after voters approved Proposition 1, Newsom’s $6.4-billion bond measure that aims to address one aspect of homelessness by building more treatment facilities ...

Tens of billions of dollars, nine agencies and more than 30 programs. As the homelessness crisis has intensified, California under Gov. Gavin Newsom’s leadership allocated an unprecedented $24 billion to address homelessness and housing during the last five fiscal years, according to the Legislative Analyst’s Office.

An audit of homeless funding released by the California Interagency Council on Homelessness in April revealed the state had lost track of nearly $24 billion for homelessness and housing between ...

The report, which took over a year to complete and was requested by a bipartisan group of lawmakers, sought to account for the $24 billion California has spent on its fight against homelessness.

California has devoted $24 billion to homelessness programs during the last five years. The problem’s only gotten worse. Since 2019, homelessness in the state rose by almost 20% to more than ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California spent $24 billion on homelessness in 5 years but didn’t consistently track outcomes, state audit finds.

The California State Auditor’s office found a number of “gaps” in data collection and evaluation for allocating approximately $24 billion in taxpayer money during the 2018-2023 fiscal years. California’s handling of its homeless population has sparked criticism from lawmakers and public figures after an audit found Governor Gavin Newsom’s administration...

California auditor’s report found that despite roughly $24 billion spent on homeless and housing programs during the 2018-2023 fiscal years, the problem didn’t improve in many cities ...

California's effort to combat homelessness fails to curb rising unhoused population California is spending billions of dollars on ... It comes as California has spent nearly $24 billion over the ...

The state spent 24-billion dollars in public money on homeless and housing programs between 2018 and 2023, but according to the audit, the crisis didn’t improve. The report found that the California Interagency Council on Homelessness, the agency responsible for allocating agencies and resources for programs, stopped tracking how much was ...

A month from now, Gov. Gavin Newsom must reveal a revised version of the $322.3 billion budget for the 2025-26 fiscal year that he proposed in January,. It’s not likely to be a pretty picture. The current budget is already billions of dollars in the hole, thanks to soaring expenses for the destructive and deadly wildfires that were sweeping through Los Angeles County as Newsom unveiled his ...

California and more than a dozen states are suing the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, led by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., over the termination of $11 billion in “critical” public ...