An audit says the state housing department did not properly distribute federal funds meant to help homeless residents during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The California Department of Housing and Community Development did not properly distribute federal relief funds meant to help homeless residents during the COVID-19 pandemic, and the mismanagement was so prolonged that local organizations might lose the money because of missed deadlines, auditors said Tuesday.reduce the impact of COVID-19 on unhoused people
The department was in charge of distributing the funds to local groups that collaborate on homeless services and prevention under the so-called continuum of care. It took so long to finalize contracts that the local entities did not have access to much of the funding during the height of the pandemic, auditors found.
“In the weeks and months following the passage of the CARES Act, we expected the department to have taken every step possible to ensure that timely access and it did not,” the report said.California will spend a record $4.8 billion over two years to alleviate homelessness after legislators passed key details of a new state budget. Here’s how the money will be spent.
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