A coalition of mayors from the state’s largest cities, including San Diego Mayor Todd Gloria, Tuesday visited Sacramento to urge Gov. Gavin Newsom and the legislature to make permanent funding homelessness services across California.
The Big City Mayors coalition, chaired by Gloria, requested Newsom and legislators avoid making cuts to the Homelessness Housing, Assistance and Prevention program and commit to funding it at $1 billion a year going forward.
“The shelters and service programs that big cities up and down California have created with local and state dollars are getting people off the street and connected to care,” Gloria said after the meeting in Sacramento. “We need to protect the progress we’ve made through continued state investment.”
“We have shown urgency in putting state funding to work to increase emergency shelter, bring people indoors and put them on a path to permanent housing,” he said. “We can build on this success, but cities need the certainty that a commitment to …