{"id":462620,"date":"2021-04-30T10:35:49","date_gmt":"2021-04-30T14:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=462620"},"modified":"2021-04-30T10:35:51","modified_gmt":"2021-04-30T14:35:51","slug":"calif-mayors-request-state-funding-to-fight-homelessness-ask-for-20b-over-next-5-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/calif-mayors-request-state-funding-to-fight-homelessness-ask-for-20b-over-next-5-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Calif. mayors request state funding to fight homelessness, ask for $20B over next 5 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcalif-mayors-request-state-funding-to-fight-homelessness-ask-for-20b-over-next-5-years%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=462620&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div id=\"attachment_2403163\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2403163\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">File \u2013 Homeless people line the streets with tents in Los Angeles. (Richard Vogel\/AP Photo)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>OAN Newsroom<br \/>UPDATED 7: AM PT \u2013 Friday, April 30, 2021<\/h5>\n<p>A group of mayors across California are asking the state\u2019s ruling Democrats for additional funding to tackle the worsening homelessness crisis in their cities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday we\u2019re calling on state leaders to prioritize the much needed ongoing flexible investments that will empower local cities,\u201d stated Bakersfield Mayor Karen Goh.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, mayors from all over California asked the state for $20 billion to fight vagrancy over the next five years. In response, the California GOP asserted the policies of Sacramento Democrats have produced the rise in homelessness and even Democrat mayors appear to agree.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the biggest crisis in California; we see it in our underpasses and overpasses, we see it under our bridges and, unfortunately, it\u2019s not just there anymore in the shadows,\u201d stated Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti. \u201cThe pandemic of homelessness, which kills people disproportionately.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>California posted a massive $15 billion fiscal surplus for the past year and yet millions of its residents face extreme poverty and homelessness. All the while, wealthy Democrats appear to be getting richer by the day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet\u2019s be clear what the consequences are in the worst cases, people die from homelessness,\u201d Mayor Garcetti continued. \u201cIt is time for California at a moment of a historic surplus to speak to our values and step up.\u201d<\/p>\n<h4>MORE NEWS:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/biden-claims-white-supremacy-is-biggest-terror-threat-security-experts-say-islamic-terrorists-killed-thousands-of-americans\/\">Biden Claims White Supremacy Is Biggest Terror Threat<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>File \u2013 Homeless people line the streets with tents in Los Angeles. (Richard Vogel\/AP Photo) OAN NewsroomUPDATED 7: AM PT \u2013 Friday, April 30, 2021 A group of mayors across &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2277074,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-462620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=462620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462620\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2277074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}