California’s mayors are asking for more funds from the state to fight homelessness ― and it appears Democratic Gov. After a meeting Wednesday on housing and homelessness with about a dozen mayors from across the Golden state, Newsom told reporters “the budget just changed,” according to NBC. In the budget Newsom proposed in January, the governor had set aside $500 million to spend on regional and local homelessness programs ― the same amount former Gov. Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg leads the 13-member “Big City Mayors” group that’s asking for more funds, including Los Angeles, Sacramento, San Francisco and more. Amid the nation’s affordable housing crisis, California has been one of the states with the worst rates of homelessness.

Source: Huffington Post March 21, 2019 20:37 UTC