The New California Coalition was standing side-by-side with local and state leaders for the Prop 1 campaign launch. The campaign is ramping up now to alert voters about this important measure that’s focused on “Treatment not Tents.” If passed, the $6.38 billion bond will provide funding to build more than 11,150 new behavioral health beds and housing. This isn’t just a mental health or homelessness bond, it also means more housing, which is a fundamental NCC goal. The measure will create 26,700 outpatient treatment slots which currently has dwindled to just over 5,000.

"The $6 billion bond measure would create thousands of mental health treatment beds and housing.

Gov. Gavin Newsom made a stop Wednesday, Jan. 3, at Los Angeles General Medical Center in Lincoln Heights to encourage constituents to vote yes for Proposition 1, a $6.38 billion bond measure on the March ballot that supporters say will open thousands of mental health treatment beds and build housing across the state.

Newsom said the proposition would transform California’s mental health and substance use disorder treatment systems and help address the state’s deteriorating homelessness and addiction crises.

“You’ve got to support an initiative that will create 11,000 new units of housing (and) 27,000 new treatment slots in outpatient opportunities that promotes not just solutions but promotes spending billions of dollars specifically for veterans,” said Newsom."
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