California Democrats propose higher business taxes to pay for homeless programs
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In this May 21, 2020 file photo, a man is seen at a homeless encampment under Interstate 110 in downtown Los Angeles. A coalition in California is proposing legislation to boost taxes corporations to raise $2.4 billion for homeless programs.Mark J. Terrill / Associated PressShow MoreShow Less
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Assemblyman David Chiu gives lunches to neighborhood residents at the Ella Hill Hutch Community Center in San Francisco in April.Paul Chinn / The Chronicle 2020Show MoreShow Less
SACRAMENTO State and local Democratic leaders are pushing for an increase in California’s corporate tax rate to tackle the state’s homelessness crisis, a proposal that could generate billions of dollars in new funding but faces long odds to becoming law.
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Austin has hired a new leader to address the city s homelessness crisis, after going more than a year without anyone in that role.
Dianna Grey, an independent consultant and a 2001 University of Texas graduate, will be the city s second homeless strategy officer, the city said Monday. Grey will coordinate the city s homeless response among multiple departments, tasked with bringing focus to the issue as the unsheltered population in the city grows and after the city failed to spend $31 million it had allocated for homelessness services last year.
Grey is scheduled to start her new job Jan. 4. She will make $136,011 annually, according to the city.
Advocates for affordable housing in Seattle. (KIRO Radio)
In 2019, KOMO produced a documentary entitled “Seattle is Dying,” laying out a narrative arguing that an escalating homeless crisis was responsible for the downfall of the city’s downtown core. The network put out a sequel in December called “Fight for the Soul of Seattle,” and groups criticized in the segment are already speaking out.
The new 90-minute follow-up documentary from KOMO labels the Downtown Emergency Service Center (DESC) a local homelessness nonprofit as “the single greatest drain on police resources in the city of Seattle.”
The organization released a lengthy statement addressing that accusation Monday, claiming that the documentary “conflates and simplifies complex issues, mischaracterizes DESC’s mission, and ignores our successful track record housing and supporting some of the city’s most vulnerable and marginalized people.”
Oregon Dept. of Human Services and partner to address youth homelessness
SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) Oregon will benefit from the growing statewide momentum to address youth homelessness in a new partnership with the Corporation for Supportive Housing.
This effort will result in a statewide approach to addressing and ending homelessness for youth, state officials said last week.
As part of this agreement, CSH will conduct a regional needs assessment of the housing continuum and service needs for youth experiencing homelessness. The assessment will include:
Determining existing interventions,
Identifying gaps through a regional modeling system.
Assessment results will be used to create a roadmap for building the optimal support system for young adults experiencing homelessness in Oregon. Recommendations will include financial modeling for additional housing and services interventions across the housing continuum.