Blame Arnold: Newsom factors finger on homeless disaster at Schwarzenegger
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Blame Arnold: Newsom factors finger on homeless disaster at Schwarzenegger

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No Republican has held statewide workplace in California for the reason that departure of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger in 2011, however that didn’t cease Gov. Gavin Newsom from throwing shade on the Republican over the state’s homelessness disaster.
 
Mr. Newsom ticked off causes for the state’s highest-in-the-nation homeless inhabitants, together with excessive housing costs and onerous rules, earlier than taking a shot on the Schwarzenegger administration, which ran from 2003-11.
 
“I’ve been here four years. I can’t make up for the fact [that] in 2005, we had an historic number of homeless under a Republican administration,” Mr. Newsom instructed Fox News Channel host Sean Hannity in an interview airing Monday night time.
 
The remark didn’t go unnoticed by California Republicans resembling marketing campaign strategist Corey Uhden.
 
“Leave it to Gavin Newsom to declare ‘we own this’ about a 10x increase in homelessness over the past 15 years by blaming … Arnold Schwarzenegger?” tweeted Mr. Uhden.
 
The Democrat Newsom has stated he gained’t run for president in 2024. But his interview with the conservative Hannity on the nation’s hottest cable information channel means that the governor has ambitions for his future, regardless of California’s myriad social woes.
 
California has extra homeless folks than any state within the nation at 171,000 in addition to the very best per-capita charge at 44 homeless for each 10,000 residents, in response to the Housing and Urban Development Department’s 2022 annual report.

“The state has not made progress in the last two decades as it relates to homeless,” Mr. Newsom admitted in a video clip posted forward of the interview.
 
Why? “Because housing costs are too high. Our regulatory thickets are too problematic,” he stated. “Localism has been too impactful, meaning people locally are pushing back against new housing starts and construction.”

 

 
Mr. Newsom has raised his nationwide profile within the final yr by taking pictures at Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who’s polling second behind former President Donald Trump within the race for the GOP presidential nomination.
 
Mr. Hannity identified that Florida has far fewer homeless at 26,000, and Mr. Newsom didn’t disagree.
 
“Of course. Not even comparable,” Mr. Newsom stated.
 
Mr. Hannity added: “Okay, same weather, similar state. I mean, I’ve lived in both.”
 
Mr. Newsom replied: “The dynamics are different. That said, we own this, Sean. I’m not here defending this.”
 
Mr. Schwarzenegger and former state insurance coverage commissioner Steve Poizner, a Republican, each left workplace in 2011. No Republican has been elected statewide since then.

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