Prop 1 To Fund Billions for Mental Health Housing and Treatment
10/29/2024 | 2mVideo has Closed Captions
Prop 1 funds billions for housing and treatment for Californians with mental illness.
Prop 1 authorizes $6.4 billion in bonds for mental health housing and treatment in California, including support for veterans. Counties must allocate 30% of funds to housing and services for chronically homeless individuals. The initiative narrowly passed this year.
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Prop 1 To Fund Billions for Mental Health Housing and Treatment
10/29/2024 | 2mVideo has Closed Captions
Prop 1 authorizes $6.4 billion in bonds for mental health housing and treatment in California, including support for veterans. Counties must allocate 30% of funds to housing and services for chronically homeless individuals. The initiative narrowly passed this year.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorshipCalifornia is getting ready to release billions of dollars for mental health housing.
The ballot initiative voters approved in March will provide billions of dollars to fund housing and treatment facilities for mentally ill Californians.
Proposition 1 passed by the narrowest of margins, 50.2% to 49.8%.
The initiative includes a $6.4 billion bond to pay for treatment beds and permanent supportive housing.
It also requires that counties invest 30% of the money they receive from the state's millionaire's tax into housing programs, including rental subsidies and navigation services.
Half of that will be used to target individuals who are chronically unhoused or living in encampments.
Up to a quarter of the money could be used to build or purchase housing units.
The bond is divided into two parts.
About $4.4 billion will go towards inpatient and residential treatment beds.
The rest is earmarked for permanent supportive housing, half of which would be set aside for veterans.
Prop 1 comes coupled with several other major mental health initiatives that took place during Governor Gavin Newsom's administration, including CARE Court.
That program allows a judge to order someone into behavioral health treatment.
It's meant for people with severe mental illnesses.
If a person received the court-mandated service but failed to complete their treatment they could be considered by the court for conservatorship.
The idea is to make it easier for people who need help but may not be seeking it to get it before they lose legal autonomy or end up in jail.
Darrell Steinberg, the mayor of Sacramento, who co-authored the 2004 law that created the millionaire's tax, said that back then, he could only dream that there would someday be a governor that would make mental illness and fixing the broken system a cornerstone of his governorship.
Gavin Newsom has done that.
With CalMatters, I'm Mia Henry, with reporting by Jocelyn Wiener.
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