California Lawmaker Says His Audit Hit Dead Ends When Assessing State’s Homelessness Spending

The auditors reported that the state had not collected sufficient information for them to audit all the programs.

A man gulps down a drink at the Silicon Valley homeless encampment known as "The Jungle" in San Jose, Calif., on, Dec. 3, 2014. Josh Edelson/AFP via Getty Images

California state Sen. Dave Cortese said he requested an audit of California’s spending on homelessness because he wanted to know what the cities were doing with the money, whether their practices could be improved, and whether something could be done better at the state level.

Cortese discussed the audit on a recent episode of EpochTV’s “Bay Area Innovators.”