California spent $24 billion over a five-year period to tackle homelessness without consistently tracking the outcomes or effectiveness of its programs, according to a state audit. The report assesses the effectiveness of the state and local cities in addressing the ongoing homelessness crisis in California.
Homeless people wait in line for dinner outside the Midnight Mission in the Skid Row area of Los Angeles, Wednesday, Oct. 25, 2023.SACRAMENTO — California spent $24 billion to tackle homelessness over a five-year period but didn’t consistently track the outcomes or effectiveness of its programs, according to state audit released Tuesday.
Among other things, the report found that the California Interagency Council on Homelessness, which is responsible for coordinating agencies and allocating resources for homelessness programs, stopped tracking spending on programs and their outcomes in 2021 despite the continuous funding from the state. It also failed to develop a collect and evaluate outcome data of these programs due to the lack of a consistent method.
The council, which lawmakers created to help the state deal with its homelessness problem, also has only reported on homelessness spending once since its creation in 2017, according to the report.
California Homelessness State Audit Programs Effectiveness Crisis
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