California’s Proposition One has reportedly passed by a narrow margin. The Times of San Diego reports the mental health bond backed by Governor Gavin Newsom received enough votes to pass as of Wednesday’s updated vote count. It means California will be using six-point-four-billion-dollars in bond funding to build housing and residential treatment facilities for people with mental illnesses. It also requires individual counties to spend more tax revenue on housing and programs for homeless people with serious mental illnesses. Newsom postponed Monday’s planned state of the state speech because the vote was still too close to call. In a social media post, he calls it “a huge victory” and “the biggest change California has seen in decades.”
The Mental Health and Homeless Prop 1 Bond Barely Passes
