Progress report and town hall tonight - focused on tackling the homelessness crisis.

California has launched the largest and boldest homeless housing plan in state history. All focussed on data driven solutions to tackle this crisis… 👉 Housing: Hundreds of permanent units have been built, hundreds more are on the way between the Oregon border and the Golden Gate Bridge in the coming few years.

👉 Services: All of these units are wrapped with mental health and addiction services…

California is launching the largest high speed internet project in American history.

This historic initiative will help bridge the digital divide and provide reliable and affordable internet access to millions of unserved and underserved residents... The bottom line is this: The pandemic shined a spotlight on the massive disparities that exist in California’s small towns, urban cities and rural counties when it comes to the lack of reliable internet activity.

This is why the State is moving with speed to deploy…

Heavy heart tonight. 

Art Ibleto, the beloved Pasta King, has passed away. The King was one of the most generous humans to walk this earth... He raised millions over the decades - by donating his catering services and all of the food and fixins’ - for neighbors in need and for the causes we all love.

As @realDonaldTrump prepares to land in California to talk wildfires, here’s a quick refresher:

1. Approx 57% of CA’s 33 million acres of forests are owned and managed by the Feds. Just 3% are owned and managed by the state or local gov’t... 2. Talking about forest management: The US Forest Service’s budget has remained fairly stagnant for the past decade. More and more of the Dept’s budget has gone into firefighting, which means less and less is going into prevention, vegetation management and dead and dying...