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Gov. Newsom to Spend Another $1 Billion on Homeless

March 3, 2026 8:38 amMarch 4, 2026 12:56 am

California Governor Gavin Newsom announced plans Monday to allocate an additional $1 billion to support his homelessness programs, focusing on expanding housing and behavioral health services. Newsom now claims he is “Repairing California’s behavioral health system,” which he says he...

Governor Newsom’s 2026 Budget has New Homeless Agencies & Increases Homeless Spending: $37 Billion Wasn’t Enough?

February 16, 2026 9:28 amFebruary 17, 2026 3:22 pm

California Governor Gavin Newsom vetoed two bills in 2024 that would have created actual transparency and auditing for the tens of billions that was spent and lost on homeless programs. One bill would have required annual reporting on state-run homelessness...

Gavin Newsom is the First Governor to Make Homelessness a Way of Life

December 8, 2025 1:47 pmDecember 10, 2025 8:56 am

Remember when California Governor Gavin Newsom, who has presided over the exponential growth of hundreds of thousands of homeless drug addicts living on California streets, magically cleaned up San Francisco ahead of the arrival of Chinese President Xi Jinping and...

Build the Wall! …Around San Francisco for Asian-Pacific Economic Summit

November 12, 2023 8:42 amNovember 12, 2023 2:29 pm

This surely must be from the “you can’t make this stuff up” department: San Francisco is building walls around the area where the the Asian-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit is going in – for security. “The sidewalks in the APEC zone,...

Los Angeles, San Francisco Mayors Clean Up Cities for Visiting Dignitaries But not for Residents

November 10, 2023 11:08 amNovember 13, 2023 8:59 am

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, who ludicrously chairs the U.S. Conference of Mayors’s Homelessness Task Force, is hosting a two-day U.S. Conference of Mayors gathering to discuss the challenges in addressing homelessness. At the same time, San Francisco Mayor London...

Can ‘Ruined City’ and ‘Ghost Town’ San Francisco Window Dress For APEC 2023?

November 6, 2023 2:30 amNovember 7, 2023 10:03 am

With the upcoming Asian-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit in San Francisco, there is a frantic rush to clean up the city streets – the streets, the sidewalks and the many businesses which have been rotting under the burden of the...