The authors of the measurement of a semi-celle homeless sales tax which entered into force on April 1 have enabled it to large objectives such as the reduction in the number of homeless people each year and increasing the number of camps.
To give public tools to measure its success – or its failure – they included a process to add targets and concrete deadlines after the county voters approved the measure in November.
This has now been completed by the management table for the regional alignment of the homeless, a panel of service providers, experts and former homelessness created by the Comté supervisors.
Research from the California Policy Lab of the UCLA has combined data from several county agencies which follow the contacts of service providers with the homeless. Based on this data, the political laboratory has led to statistics that have given the clearest image to date of certain basic facts on homelessness and their trends in recent years.
He noted, for example, that more than 60,000 new people had entered the homeless system in 2024-most of them who came out by themselves-and that 41% of the homeless declared having a serious mental illness, a substance consumption disorder or both.
These statistics have become the basic lines. The table of managers then set quinquennial improvement targets. Unlike the radical language of the end of homelessness which led to disillusionment on previous tax measures, he adopted moderate objectives which he considered to be achievable. For example, reducing the number of non -scholarships by 30%.
These objectives have been approved by the Executive Committee for the Regional Alignment of the Sans-Abri, a panel of County and cities elected officials.
The graph below shows each objective and the measures associated with it.
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