Kounalakis mentioned if reelected, creating extra inexpensive housing can be a precedence, calling a present scarcity of choices the No. 1 contributing issue to the state’s homelessness disaster.
Infrastructure would even be a precedence, she mentioned, including that first responders and lecturers want to have the ability to afford to stay close to the locations they work to ensure that communities to thrive.
“I do know the reply to California’s housing disaster is constructing extra inexpensive houses for California households. Having the ability to afford a house issues to all households,” she mentioned. “As lieutenant governor, creating extra inexpensive housing and strengthening our state’s infrastructure might be a precedence. We have to proceed to spend money on our roads, highways, bridges, transit hubs and waterways. Constructing extra inexpensive houses — and investing within the infrastructure that helps them — creates good-paying jobs and stimulates our financial system.”
Underwood Jacobs lists “reforms to actually remedy homelessness” as a precedence on her marketing campaign web site. She has known as homelessness in California “uncontrolled.”
“Offering assist to these in want is critical; nevertheless, if people are unwilling to take the assistance provided, we can’t allow them to smash parks, delicate ecological areas, and public areas like streets,” she mentioned.
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