program for people with disabilities or low incomes, would only pay for medical expenses. But last year the Biden administration gave Arizona and Oregon permission to use Medicaid money for housing — a nod to reams of research showing people in stable housing are healthier.
“It’s a huge step toward breaking down the silos that have gotten in the way of taking care of the whole person rather than limb by limb and illness by illness,” said Anthony Wright, executive director of Health Access California, a consumer advocacy group. California experimented with using Medicaid money for some housing-related expenses in 2016 when it launched a pilot project in 26 counties. While Medicaid did not pay for rent, it paid for things like security deposits and furniture.
Now California wants to go further by using Medicaid money to directly pay some people's rent. Democratic Assemblymember Joaquin Arambula, who chairs the budget subcommittee that will vet Newsom's proposal, said lawmakers are supportive. Arambula spent a decade as an emergency room doctor. Kelly Bennett, founder and CEO of Sacramento Covered, said that during California's first experiment with using Medicaid money for housing services, it would often take up to eight months for workers to place a patient in an apartment. In some cases, people have waited for years to find a place.
CA is in debt by $ 149 Billion and rising. Must be political BS.
It would be similar to Japan government act as you might know…
Stop using buckets of funding for cross purposes. Medicaid is for medical expenses.
Make them work for it!
California is ass backwards. What's the % of homeless who really want to be off the streets? are not addicts, or have a mental health issue?. I'd be willing to bet it's less then 5%... most just want to do drugs and don't care about sustaining a home.
What about the deficit?
This is what it looks like when tax dollars go back to the people rather than some billionaires bank account.
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Awesome!
So after 6 months they’re back out on the streets 🤔
'..Corporate tax cuts?' - GOP
Why not just use that 100 million to offset training for them, help with transportation to a new job? Oh wait they already do all that but most homeless are junkies that would rather sleep in their own filth and do drugs then fox themselves…
This is the same state where San Francisco wants to give every single black person $5,000,000.
Typical lefty bullshit…Rob Peter to pay Paul.
Government supplied housing…, HMM…, That doesn't sound communist at all…
Good plan?
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