California metropolis OK’s $1M consistent with unit homeless housing challenge after audit discovered state wasted billions on disaster

Santa Monica metropolis officers final week accepted a multimillion-dollar condo unit for the homeless simply days after the discharge of an audit which discovered California may just now not account for the $24 billion it spent at the state’s burgeoning homeless disaster. 

The 122-unit development for the homeless will come with a mixture of studio, one, two and three-bedroom flats, together with floor flooring retail and home and industrial parking areas. 

“Shifting ahead in bringing inexpensive and everlasting supportive housing to city-owned land is a key step in our way to satisfy our Housing Part necessities,” Mayor Phil Brock mentioned. “I look ahead to the following steps and in the long run seeing households transfer into those new properties and thrive.”

The measure was once accepted days after the discharge of an audit which indicated the state had spent round $24 billion between 2018 and 2023 to take on homelessness – however didn’t constantly monitor whether or not the large outlay of public cash did the rest to in fact toughen the issue. 

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The California Interagency Council on Homelessness (Cal ICH), the company answerable for coordinating companies and allocating sources for the homelessness methods blamed native governments for the issue, announcing those municipalities should be held extra responsible.

Fox Information Virtual reached out to Santa Monica officers wondering how town will be sure that budget are spent successfully in mild of the audit’s findings. 

Homeless encampments line the streets in Oakland, California on Friday, March 15, 2024. Town stays plagued through homelessness as within sight companies shut their doorways because of protection issues. (DWS for Fox Information Virtual)

A metropolis spokesperson mentioned the state – like many different puts – “is experiencing a housing and homelessness disaster, and all towns around the state are required to undertake a Housing Part that incorporates inexpensive housing.” 

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“Santa Monica has devoted a number of city-owned websites for inexpensive initiatives, a key way to decrease prices to expand this wanted housing and meet the mandates within the council-approved Housing Part,” the spokesperson mentioned. “Town is following this technique with council just lately approving the settlement to transport ahead with trends on 3 city-owned websites alongside Euclid Road.”