LOCAL NEWS WEDNESDAY 4-27-22

By BStigers on April 28, 2022.

The California State budget surplus continues to attract associations and advocates that believe they deserve some of the money for their cause or causes. Affordable housing advocates is one that is making their case about how that money should be spent. The aHousing Nowa coalition gathered at the State Capitol steps recently to call for nearly $1 billion for affordable housing and homeowner protections. The group called for four areas of spending: $500 million to prevent displacement, $150 million to protect people from eviction, $200 million for housing assistance for former criminal offenders and $65 million in restitution for people who lost homes because of attempted clean energy upgrades.

This is one of many actions on how to handle the homeless in Sacramento city and county, and now other surrounding counties, and one of many that really want a piece of the surplus cash that exists above the Governoras budget and get some of the dollars and control how to spend it. 

The five counties in Northern County that make up another major California population center outside the major cities in California, which includes Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco, now Sacramento and surrounding countries are experiencing major problems, particularly the homeless situation. The needs of supporting the homeless villages is falling on the other taxpayers that own homes, run business, and with the emphasis falling on the state to fund with excess dollars and take these monies from other general population needs, like transportation care, additional police and criminal enforcement needs, mental health services, schools and city infrastructure needs like water underground systems that are aging out that need replacement, all which appears to being pushed aside as new career opportunity is attracting new educated people into government service jobs, hiring staff for these services, and additional personnel in county and city government to support these new efforts is growing exponentially. This financial burden growth never ends and has a longevity that is in place for years if not centuries. Political leaders need to examine the impact of all their decisions on the next 5, 10 and 50 years of impact on financial support by the residents of the counties since the burden of dollars fall directly on these people.   

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