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Assembly committee advances Functional Zero Act requiring local planning to reduce unsheltered homelessness
Summary
SB 606 would require local governments and Continuums of Care to plan for achieving "functional zero" unsheltered homelessness and to include unit-need analyses; sponsors argued the measure leverages planning to ensure jurisdictions use tools granted by the Legislature.
Senator Becker presented SB 606, the Functional Zero Act, to the Assembly Human Services Committee and said the bill would require cities, counties and Continuums of Care to include plans and analyses showing the number and types of housing units needed to achieve and maintain "functional zero" unsheltered homelessness.
Becker described California as having an outsized share of the nation’s unsheltered homeless…
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