{"id":16837,"date":"2025-10-22T00:28:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T00:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/16837\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T00:28:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T00:28:07","slug":"gov-newsom-is-right-to-defend-housing-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/16837\/","title":{"rendered":"Gov. Newsom Is Right to Defend Housing First"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-type=\"paragraph\" data=\"[object Object]\" class=\"css-1akm6h5-Paragraph e1e4oisd0\">Mayor Daniel Lurie helped pass legislation that would allow local governments in California to spend up to 10% of homeless funding from the state on \u201crecovery-focused\u201d housing (\u201c<a data-type=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/opinion\/gavin-newsom-housing-san-francisco-daniel-lurie-matt-haney-california-e089762f?gaa_at=eafs&amp;gaa_n=AWEtsqe70GJaC2dLomU51E75so2h-HHjFKf8JiBMp-R4ia1H8tfR1oq1lB5K9UaHzSs=&amp;gaa_ts=68f67cbe&amp;gaa_sig=mUfzStWeCNcRhLiZU_n7ZHm9zEjAPRIgDkZDe9E4_sAXYpqVNV8MlFiLOnI_42RS53FLFeH1wJCs3VFeifSI8A==&amp;mod=article_inline\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ekxajjj0 css-i0lbhy-OverridedLink\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">San Francisco vs. Gavin Newsom<\/a>,\u201d Review &amp; Outlook, Oct. 10). While there is ongoing debate about the roles of Housing First and \u201crecovery-focused\u201d offerings, further segmenting insufficient resources isn\u2019t prudent policymaking. <\/p>\n<p data-type=\"paragraph\" data=\"[object Object]\" class=\"css-1akm6h5-Paragraph e1e4oisd0\">Substance use and lack of access to treatment programs are serious problems in the U.S. The Substance Use and Mental Health Services Administration estimated that 17% of Americans had a substance-use disorder in 2024. The most recent data from California found that about 37% of homeless people reported regular substance use in the six months prior to being surveyed.\u202f <\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a92025 Dow Jones &amp; Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mayor Daniel Lurie helped pass legislation that would allow local governments in California to spend up to 10%&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16838,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[453,7,9,8,470,451,179,450,449,1965,452,457,18,1493,1011,12430,469,14593,434,975,471,463,441,13,448,3110,732,14595,464,444,14591,454,3299,435,14590,14594,14592,436,455],"class_list":["post-16837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-ce-executive-news-filter","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-commentaries","tag-commentaries-opinions","tag-community","tag-content-types","tag-domestic-politics","tag-editorials","tag-factiva-filters","tag-gavin-newsom","tag-general-news","tag-homelessness","tag-housing","tag-housing-issues","tag-international-relations","tag-linki1-sb11552431979878404216104592432904095640774","tag-north-america","tag-opinion","tag-opinions","tag-political","tag-political-general-news","tag-politics","tag-politics-international-relations","tag-regional-politics","tag-social-issues","tag-social-services","tag-society","tag-society-community","tag-substance-abuse","tag-synd","tag-treatment","tag-united-states","tag-urban-institute","tag-welfare","tag-welfare-social-services","tag-western-u-s","tag-wsj-pro-wsj-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16837\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}