Opinion: Moves for mental health in our state
Gov. Gavin Newsom and the California Legislature are trying to come to grips with the mental-health crisis that, along with addiction, is clearly the cause of much of our state’s tragic scourge of homelessness.
Under the governor’s proposed plan, we the voters will be participating in the hard democratic decisions about how to provide mental-health care. Newsom this spring unveiled a bond measure that, if put on the ballot by the Legislature and then approved by we the people, would raise billions of dollars to build mental-centers, housing and treatment facilities all over the state. His proposed bond measure would raise $3 billion for mental health campuses and permanent housing for the unhoused.
If it could go a long way to providing treatment for the mentally ill among us, many Californians would probably consider the interest payments on that $3 billion we would all be paying a bargain. But, as always, the devil is in the details.
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