📻 Listen to MarisaKendall discuss her reporting on the differences between homelessness policies in California vs Texas, and what California officials are learning from Houston, San Antonio and Austin.
In the last decade, the number of people who are homeless in California has soared, rising more than 40%. Meanwhile, in Texas, they're seeing the opposite trend, with homelessness dropping by nearly a third. California leaders have been making trips to Texas to see what they can learn from the Lone Star State's approach. And Marisa Kendall, who reports on homelessness in California for CalMatters, recently traveled to Texas herself to report on what they're doing differently.
MARTÍNEZ: OK, so those are some options on solutions. California, though, can't be looking to model everything Texas is doing. In California, on the other hand, there's a court ruling that mostly prohibits cities from clearing encampments unless they have a shelter bed to offer everyone. Another issue is, in Houston, where they focus so much on permanent housing, they neglect temporary shelter. So I spoke with a woman named Rachel Gonzales, who has been waiting months for a housing placement. And in the meantime, she's sleeping on the sidewalk without even a tent because there's just not enough shelter beds.
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