By Selen Ozturk To fight California’s homelessness crisis, housing is not enough — unhoused residents also need long-term help, with federal funds now at risk. In the nation’s most ambitious effort to address these needs, a $12 billion five-year initiative, launched in 2022 under Medi-Cal, has expanded the state’s version of Medicaid to provide services for the unhoused including stable housing navigation, rent deposit aid and tenancy-sustaining support through a program known as HTSS (Housing, Tenancy and Sustaining Services). Medi-Cal insures nearly 15 million Californians, or 40% of the state. In the third quarter of 2024 alone, nearly 50,000 Californians […]
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