<p>California Governor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/gavin-newsom" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gavin Newsom</a> signed a law on Wednesday that speeds up the process for churches and colleges to build affordable housing on their parking lots or other property.</p>
<p>The new law, one of many moves to combat California&#8217;s homelessness crisis, will rezone land owned by religious institutions like churches, mosques, and synagogues, as well as nonprofit colleges to allow them to build affordable housing.</p>
<p>As of next year, the institutions will be able to skip much of the lengthy process to get environmental approval and bypass most local permit regulations to build the low-income housing units.</p>
<p>Several cities had voiced opposition to the law, saying it would strip control from local governments over housing developments.</p>
<p>The law will sunset in 2036.</p>
<p>California has started to take a more direct approach to its homelessness crisis, which is rapidly worsening.</p>
<p>California has about 170,000 homeless people, the biggest homeless population in the country, according to a <a href="https://www.huduser.gov/portal/sites/default/files/pdf/2022-AHAR-Part-1.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> last year from the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Nearly a third of the country’s homeless people live in California, <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2023/06/20/california-accounts-for-nearly-one-third-of-the-nations-homeless-people/70340309007/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to a June statewide study from a research group at the University of California, San Francisco.</p>
<p>Some California cities have particularly dire homeless problems and have struggled to find long-term solutions to curb the problem.</p>
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<p>San Francisco has been in the throes of a homelessness crisis for years now, and it has only gotten worse since before the pandemic. About 38,000 people <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/rising-crime-homelessness-leave-residents-of-san-francisco-and-oakland-on-edge" target="_blank" rel="noopener">are homeless</a> in the Bay Area on a given night, up 35% since 2019.</p>
<p>Last month, Sacramento’s top prosecutor sued the city over its homeless encampments, accusing city officials of allowing the homeless population to become a public nuisance.</p>
<p>Besides building more affordable housing, California also has a new court-ordered treatment program that goes into effect next week, a significant attempt by the state to get a handle on the addiction and mental illness issues that come with the homelessness crisis.</p>
<p>The Community Assistance, Recovery and Empowerment (CARE) Act program <a href="https://www.chhs.ca.gov/care-act/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">allows</a> families of adults suffering from a serious untreated psychotic disorder to file a petition in civil court for court-ordered treatment. Clinicians, first responders, and others can also file a petition. If the petition is approved, a judge can order a year-long care plan, which can be renewed for a second year.</p>
<p>Also on Wednesday, Newsom <a href="https://apnews.com/article/california-governor-gavin-newsom-tiny-homes-4ff201e339631cfb6190c78a5014774e" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> the Sacramento location of a group of <span class="LinkEnhancement">1,200 tiny homes for homeless people, the first of four groups of these homes that will be build in four cities.</span></p>

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