$10 Million on 5 People: California’s New Odd Approach to Homelessness | Doug Chaffee

“It was advertised as being a panacea for homeless people. They’re unlikely to use it.”

Siyamak sits down with Orange County Supervisor Doug Chafee to talk about the progress of the CARE Court program in the county and across the state. This program passed with bipartisan support in 2022 and promised a lot to deal with the mental illness component of homelessness in California. We got a lot of information and we were pretty surprised with what we saw. Our investigative reporter Beige Luciano-Adams shares how it is working six months after being implemented.

“When the bill was introduced, it had stronger language in the beginning. And it was seen as a way to compel treatment for this population. It would be an involuntary—or parts of it would be involuntary. And then there was a really big backlash from disability rights organizations, civil liberties organizations like the ACLU. They sued. The California Supreme Court actually denied their challenge. But they sued and they issued a lot of public statements, and they put a lot of pressure and ultimately there were amendments made to the bill. And now it’s entirely voluntary.”

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