Over the last half-decade, state government has spent about $24 billion to ameliorate California's worst-in-the-nation homelessness crisis, yet the number of unhoused Californians has continued to increase to more than 181,000. The data imply that whatever officials have been doing hasn't worked or that underlying factors are so powerful that officialdom can only nibble at the margins despite large spending.
Recent political discourse indicates that California officials recognize the virtual impossibility of significantly reducing homelessness and have shifted into self-protective blame-shifting. Governor Newsom, who initially promised effective action, has now resorted to blaming local government officials for the failure, demanding more oversight and threatening to withhold funds for those deemed ineffective.
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