California Bungled $316M From Feds Earmarked for the Homeless, Now May Lose It – By Adam Andrzejewski (Real Clear Policy) / Sept 6 2021
After collecting $316 million from the federal CARES Act to house homeless people during the Covid-19 pandemic, California simply held onto the funds instead of distributing it. The state may now lose it.
That’s according to a new report from the state auditor’s office, that found the California Department of Housing and Community Development “did not take critical steps to ensure those funds promptly benefited that population,” the Associated Press reported.
The department was supposed to distribute the money to local groups to provide homeless services but it took so long to finalize contracts that those groups didn’t have access to much of the funding during the height of the pandemic, auditors found.
There’s a big problem when Congress throws so much money at the states that they cannot even spend it.
