Newsom Pours Nearly $700 Million Into New Homeless Housing Units

California Gov. Gavin Newsom visits a Project Homekey site in Los Angeles preparing to welcome tenants on Aug. 24, 2022. Courtesy of Office of Governor Gavin Newsom

Gov. Gavin Newsom last week awarded $694 million in funding toward 2,500 new homeless housing projects statewide for Project Homekey, a program that connects homeless and low-income people to affordable housing. The governor announced the new projects in a news conference Aug. 24 with Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti and U.S. Rep. Karen Bass, who is running in November to succeed him.

Newsom said the program has previously funded 12,500 new homes in just two years and is “changing lives across the state.”