Gov. Gavin Newsom doled out $50 million to California cities, including Oakland and San Jose.
New state funds will help Bay Area cities clear homeless encampments from San Jose’s Guadalupe River Park to Richmond’s Castro Street — part of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s recent push to eliminate the sprawling camps that have taken over California’s sidewalks, parks and open spaces.
“Tackling the homelessness crisis is a matter of life and death,” Newsom wrote in a news release. “California is taking on the unacceptable status quo with a historic response to house thousands of our most vulnerable community members at an unprecedented rate, and swiftly addressing the encampments that pose the greatest threat to health and safety.”
Richmond won $4.8 million, which city officials planned to use to clear a camp of more than 100 people living off Castro Street in cars, RVs and trailers. The city planned to create a housing trust fund exclusively for occupants of that camp to use for rent, job training, vehicle repairs and anything else that could help them achieve stable housing, Michelle Milam, crime prevention manager for the Richmond Police Department and a member of the city’s homelessness task force, said last month.
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