Is California’s Narrow Homelessness Vote The Beginning Of The End Of ‘Housing First’?

Early polling indicated Gov. Newsom’s Proposition One, which adds $6.4 billion in debt to fund housing and mental health beds for the chronically homeless, would easily pass. However, 49.8 percent of voters saw through the shenanigans, nearly delivering the governor a stunning rebuke. 

Could this be the beginning of the end of “Housing First”?

Prop One sounded compassionate. However, the devil was buried deep into the measure’s 68 pages of detail: “Housing interventions must comply with the core components of Housing First.” Newsom spent $21 million to camouflage the measure as a “game changer.” The opposition raised around $2,000. So why did the measure nearly fail? 

Some claim voters were rejecting additional bond debt. Others claim voters have exhausted their compassion. However, it appears about half

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