California budget windfall dangles hopes for homeless housing, immigrant health coverage
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks during a news conference after touring the vaccination clinic at City College of San Francisco on April 06, 2021, in San Francisco, California. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images/TNS)Justin Sullivan / Getty Images
SACRAMENTO A year after tackling what state finance officials projected would be a record budget shortfall, California’s government is rolling in so much money that it could be forced to give some cash back to taxpayers.
Bolstered by federal aid and an economy that has recovered faster than anticipated, particularly for the wealthiest Californians, Gov. Gavin Newsom will reveal his revised budget plan this week. The announcement kicks off a final negotiation with lawmakers over the multibillion-dollar surplus that’s expected to surpass rosy estimates from January. At stake is major spending on homelessness, health care for un
Budget windfall dangles hopes for homeless housing, immigrant health coverage By Alexei Koseff
SACRAMENTO A year after tackling what state finance officials projected would be a record budget shortfall, California’s government is rolling in so much money that it could be forced to give some cash back to taxpayers.
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Bolstered by federal aid and an economy that has recovered faster than anticipated, particularly for the wealthiest Californians, Gov. Gavin Newsom will reveal his revised budget plan this week. The announcement kicks off a final negotiation with lawmakers over the multibillion-dollar surplus that’s expected to surpass rosy estimates from January. At stake is major spending on homelessness, health care for undocumented immigrants and the worsening drought.
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is chair of the Water Authority’s Board of Directors, and lives in Rancho San Diego.
Increasingly ominous signs suggest that we are entering another multiyear drought in California. The State Water Project recently reduced projected water deliveries for 2021 from 10 percent of requested supplies to 5 percent, and on April 21, Gov. Gavin Newsom declared a regional drought emergency in the Russian River watershed in Northern California.
But it’s a different story in San Diego County.
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Legislation to enable duplexes, encourage density near transit progress in California Senate
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Two bills that aim to encourage more housing Senate Bill 9 and Senate Bill 10 advanced in the state Senate s Governance and Finance Committee on April 22, 2021. Embarcadero Media file photo by Olivia Treynor.
After seeing his contentious housing legislation, Senate Bill 50, flounder at the finish line last year, state Sen. Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, is taking a more delicate approach with his latest proposal to encourage residential density near jobs and transit.
Rather than requiring cities to approve dense developments near transit hubs and bus stops, Wiener s new proposal, SB 10, operates on a strictly voluntary basis. At a hearing of the Senate s Governance and Finance Committee last week, Wiener called SB 10, which creates a streamlined process for cities and counties to increase density in infill areas