Newsom visits San Diego to announce $12 billion in funding to tackle homelessness -
SAN DIEGO (KUSI) – Gov. Gavin Newsom visited San Diego Tuesday to unveil a $12 billion plan to tackle the state’s homelessness crisis — part of his proposed $100 billion California Comeback Plan. The investment is intended to provide 65,000 people with housing placements, more than 300,000 people with housing stability and create 46,000 new housing units. Newsom’s plan includes an expansion of Homekey — a program that provided shelter from COVID-19 to 36,000 Californians and created 6,000 affordable housing units — and other similar strategies to get housing up and running quic...