California State Senator 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 also whether or not at the state level something could be done better.
Cortese shared about the audit on a recent episode of EpochTV’s “Bay Area Innovators.”
He said $24 billion is what was invested throughout the state of California by the time the audit came out, and with that spent on 58 counties, homelessness should have been wiped out.
“We want homelessness to be resolved, to be eradicated, really … but that hasn’t happened, obviously. Everyone can see that with their own eyes,” Cortese said. “In San Jose … there’s still somewhere between 4,500 and 5,000 people on the streets.”…