California doubles down on failed homeless policies

California policymakers wholeheartedly demonstrated they remain wedded to their homelessness narrative—that the sole answer to homelessness is life-long, subsidized housing—despite the fact that this one-size-fits-all policy, called "Housing First," has epically failed the Golden State and the nation.

Not to be deterred the policy’s seismic failure in California, nor at the federal level where unsheltered homelessness rose by 20.5 percent under Housing First, California policymakers recently authorized spending an additional $14 billion under the "housing alone solves homelessness" approach.