Governor Newsom Sues Trump administration Again for ‘Cruel’ Cuts to Homeless Housing Funding That will hurt families

“Governor Newsom sues Trump administration for cruel cuts to homeless housing funding that will hurt families,” reads today’s latest headline from the California Governor.

Let that sink in.

Homeless housing funding went to families? What families?

I only see mentally ill, drug addicted homeless dudes and women on the streets. No families. The housing funding money went to developers to renovate motels and build tiny homes, which were turned into tiny crack houses.

Here’s the crux of Newsom’s latest lawsuit against the Trump administration:

“Governor Newsom filed a lawsuit today as part of a multistate coalition challenging the Trump administration’s sudden slash of funding for permanent housing programs, threatening housing access for tens of thousands of vulnerable Californians.”

Compare Newsom’s statement with U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Scott Turner’s:

In accordance with President Trump’s Executive Order, “Ending Crime and Disorder on America’s Streets,” this Notice of Funding Opportunity restores accountability to homelessness programs and promotes self-sufficiency among vulnerable Americans. It redirects the majority of funding to transitional housing and supportive services, ending the status quo that perpetuated homelessness through a self-sustaining slush fund.

That’s really what Gavin Newsom is upset about – his homelessness slush fund is coming to an end after wasting $37 billion to subsidize homelessness, $37 billion of taxpayer funding, while failing to track how those billions were spent.

Gov. Newsom spent $37 billion on homelessness since 2019, according to the March 5, 2025 report from the California Legislative Analyst’s Office. Who knows what that total is now. 

According to Gov. Newsom:

“While Donald Trump is busy hosting parties and showing off his gold-plated decor, Americans are worried about groceries, rent, and basic stability. Most families can’t fall back on inherited wealth or walk away from failure through bankruptcy — but they’re the ones stuck paying for his chaos and incompetence. For all Trump’s talk about others feeding at the trough, there’s really only one ‘piggy’ here — and he’ll find it in his own gilded mirror.”

According to HUD Secretary Turner:

Roughly 90% of the last four years CoC awards funneled funding to support the failed “Housing First” ideology, which encourages dependence on endless government handouts while neglecting to address the root causes of homelessness, including illicit drugs and mental illness. The CoC Program was intended to be a national competition to select the most effective and innovative programs, however the Biden administration only completed about 10% of projects over four years. During that same time period, transitional housing, which has been proven to encourage self-sufficiency, never received more than 2% of CoC funding.

Attorney General Bonta weighed in on the funding cut:

…”the Trump Administration is now attempting to illegally slash its funding. As a result, for the 47th time in 44 weeks, I’m taking President Trump to court.”

“The federal government’s sudden and cruel changes to how nonprofits and community organizations can access funding threatens to undo years of progress and puts more than 170,000 people nationwide at risk,” said Business, Consumer Services and Housing Secretary Tomiquia Moss. “Here in California, we’re pushing back on this attempt to deprive vulnerable Californians of a place to call home.”

It’s all about the illegal gravy train provided to dubious and newly-created non-profits, NGOs and “community organizations,” now worried about how their grift and graft will live on.

Back to HUD Secretary Turner:

“As part of this announcement, Secretary Turner is requiring that 70% of projects be competed to determine the best programs, ending the status quo that automatically renewed funding without measuring success.”

Ouch. That’s gonna leave a mark.

Among other measures, this HUD Notice of Funding Opportunity:

• Increases competition for grants to improve system efficiencies and spur innovation.
• Advances public safety through thoughtful partnerships with law enforcement.
• Focuses on self-sufficiency and not on the expansion of government subsidies and perpetuation of slush funds.
• Encourages personal accountability through enhanced treatment requirements to combat the Fentanyl crisis.
• Cracks down on DEI, gender ideology extremism, and the misuse and abuse of taxpayer dollars on illegal aliens.

California spent $37 billion to tackle homelessness in 5 years – 2019 to 2024 – but didn’t track where the huge outlay of public money actually went, nor did the state bother to investigate whether it improved the lives of the homeless drug addicts, according to the 2024 state audit.

In October, Gov. Newsom vetoed a recovery housing for drug addicts bill in order to preserve his ‘Housing First’ Grift, the Globe reported. The bill passed the Senate with an overwhelming bipartisan 39-0 vote, and the Assembly 79-0. Newsom claimed that “current law already permits local jurisdictions to receive funding within the Housing First framework.” Newsom also claimed Assemblyman Haney’s bill would have been a “duplicative and costly new statutory category.”  The failed “Housing First” program does not prioritize “recovery housing,” or sober living programs, which is the only way homeless drug addicts will ever recover.

“Housing First” hasn’t worked at all for the homeless drug addicts, but has worked beautifully for developers and contractors chosen to remodel and renovate motels and hotels, build low-income apartments and tiny homes – all of which are destroyed by the drug addicts who aren’t required to participate in a recovery program. Only triage and treatment will lead to recovery.

The city of Los Angeles spends nearly $1 million per homeless drug addict via NGO/Non-profit that they try to get off the streets. But the incentives are perverse – they want to serve more homeless people to increase their business, so they never implement actual programs that would lead to recovery for the addict.

This is their business model. Governor Newsom knows this. As we have all witnessed in California, the more money spent on “homelessness” the more drug-addicted homeless vagrants we attract. The more we complain about the homeless drug addicts living in our neighborhoods, the more money is spent on it.

If Newsom actually adopted a recovery model for homelessness, he knew the spigot of funding would diminish.

So the HUD Secretary did it for him.