A day after a homeless encampment fire in San Francisco left one dead last week, California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced how $50 million in state grants will be doled out to various communities in the state to help provide housing.
“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,” Newsom said in a statement on Feb. 24, a day after the deadly encampment fire in San Francisco.