Fiscal responsibility is about more than balancing a budget, it's about making smart, strategic investments that protect our community for the long term. Here in Silicon Valley, we know being enterprising means leveraging every resource to its greatest potential. Your county government has embraced that ethos - stewarding limited public dollars to maximize returns, strengthening our safety net and safeguarding the well-being of nearly 2 million residents.
When people talk about ending homelessness, the conversation almost always starts with housing. And for good reason-without a safe, stable home, it's nearly impossible for anyone to rebuild their life. But there's another piece of this crisis we don't talk about enough: health. You can't recover from homelessness if you can't access health care. You can't stay housed if an unexpected medical bill wipes out your savings. And right now, that fragile balance - between health and housing - is under serious threat.
"There's a lot the state can do-they certainly should not be exacerbating the federal impacts," Williams said. "The most recent budget adopted by the state layers its own medical cuts on top of federal cuts, and that is very concerning. The state needs to take care of its public hospital systems."