New California Coalition

Accelerate Manufactured Housing Production to Address Homelessness

The latest innovations in manufactured housing have proven to be a cost- and time-efficient mechanism of quickly building and delivering solutions to the homelessness crisis from shelters to interim housing to permanent supportive housing. Working on enabling legislation as well as with the private sector, the New California Coalition will help rapidly accelerate the development of this market to address the acute needs of the unsheltered homeless quickly and at scale. Leverage 3D printing and other technologies that are supportive of the development of this industry and the provision of shelter to the unhoused.

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By The Numbers

7.5%

California's homeless population may have increased as much as 7.5% between 2022 and 2023

PPIC, An Update on Homelessness in California

181,399

Last year, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development tallied 181,399 unhoused Californians — 28% of the nation’s total homeless population. That’s up nearly 40% from five years ago.

CalMatters, How big is California’s homelessness crisis? Inside the massive, statewide effort to find out

$3.3 Billion

Governor Newsom today announced the availability of up to $3.3 billion in competitive grant funding to develop a wide range of behavioral health treatment settings for Californians who most need care.

Office of Governor Newsom, Governor Newsom announces up to $3.3 billion of Prop 1 funding for treatment of seriously ill & homeless

113 For. 2 Against.

Gov. Gavin Newsom’s CARE Court proposal swept through the state Legislature. A bipartisan group of 113 legislators supported the bill.

California Legislature Information, SB-1338 CARE Court Program

NCC Actions

Start with homelessness prevention by increasing housing production, providing limited term financial assistance to help people navigate crises, and creating good jobs to provide long-term financial security

Remove all barriers to the building of shelters, mental health beds, and extremely low income and permanent supportive housing and fully fund wraparound services

Show compassion and enhance public safety by moving mentally ill and substance addicted people off the streets into supportive medical care or housing

Successfully implement Proposition 1 to rapidly build acute care mental health beds and other resources necessary to fight homelessness while holding governments accountable for delivering services more efficiently

NCC Task Force Recommendations

Our proposed solutions aim to help realize Governor Gavin Newsom’s goal of building 2.5 million more housing units by 2030. California's housing gap primarily impacts working, middle-class families. The ability to increase housing production that serves these hardworking Californians is dependent on three key factors:

- Acceleration of housing project entitlements and approvals.
- Reduction of the costs of construction to enable housing to be built at an affordable price to buyers and renters.
- Fixing the current local jurisdiction disincentives for building more housing.

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NEWS

This California city is taking one of most aggressive responses to Supreme Court ruling on homeless camps

San Francisco Chronicle

Sept 23 2024

Newsom signs package of bills giving state more power to enforce housing laws

ABC 7

Sept 20 2024

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