Newsom’s Court-Ordered Care for Homeless Advances

Homeless tents sit on the park lawn on front of the Abbot Kinney Memorial Branch Library in Venice, Calif., on Feb. 18, 2022. John Fredricks/The Epoch Times

SACRAMENTO—California’s plan to push some homeless suffering from mental illness into court-ordered care moved forward this week following a unanimous vote in a Senate committee hearing.

“We have been investing billions and billions and billions of dollars into our mental health system [and] into our homelessness system,” bill co-author Sen. Susan Eggman (D-Stockton) said during the hearing on April 26. “We cannot continue to send billions of dollars to a system that is not responsive to the needs that we see every day on the streets.”