Opinion
Suicide prevention and Newsom’s focus on housing, homelessness
Homeless people in tents underneath a Los Angeles bridge. (Photo: mikeledray, via Shuytterstock)OPINION: Gov. Newsom pledged up to $1.4 billion to attack the homeless situation. To help people on the verge of homelessness keep their apartments, Newsom is proposing a sum of $750 million, some of which will go towards subsidizing rent to keep people from falling into homelessness. He also said he would sign an executive order to provide trailers and tents as temporary housing.