You know, if California voters had a dollar for every time Gavin Newsom had pledged to eradicate homelessness in his state over the nearly three decades he’s been in elected office, they’d be rich instead of struggling to make ends meet due to the high cost of living and anti-capitalist environment in the Democrat-run Golden State.
The rampant homeless problems there have been well-documented here at RedState and elsewhere, with even prominent Democrat figures in California at various points acknowledging in so many words that the issue exists primarily in big cities run by other Democrats, like Los Angeles and San Francisco.
At the forefront of the promises to solve the homeless crisis has been Newsom, who not only has positioned himself as the “face” of California over the last couple of decades but who also recently admitted he was considering a 2028 presidential run, as though it hadn’t already been obvious.
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Predictably, Newsom has in recent months worked to give off the (false) impression that he is the “do something” governor, partly to beef up his purported 2028 bona fides and also to try to combat President Trump’s legitimate criticisms of things like the state’s soft-on-crime policies, which has played a big part in the exodus of residents over the last several years to red states like Texas and Florida.
But homelessness is where Newsom continues to demonstrate that talk is cheap, with the people ending up paying the steep price that the cost of failed leadership brings. As Exhibit A, here’s Newsom’s latest announcement about what he’s allegedly doing to fix the homeless problem brought about by decades of Democrat rule:
NEW: We’re announcing 5 new Homekey+ projects creating 267 permanent supportive homes statewide, including housing for veterans.
With $636M invested and 1,800+ homes already underway, we’re expanding treatment, accountability, and stability for those who need it most. https://t.co/Nu8jTlJzdk
— Governor Gavin Newsom (@CAgovernor) December 23, 2025
That might sound good to some folks, and yet Californians have heard this same song and dance before, again and again:
“Homelessness is my #1 priority” – Gavin Newsom, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 pic.twitter.com/KIKNXWwsGi
— Kevin Dalton (@TheKevinDalton) December 23, 2025
Relatedly, there was also this from back in April, which began after a state audit found that “California spent $24B on homelessness in 5 years, [but] didn’t consistently track outcomes”:
Feds Investigating Los Angeles Homeless Industrial Complex Spending – Here’s How We Got Here
Interestingly, deep down, Gavin Newsom knows he’s been a failure on this issue. He just hopes no one else has noticed.
The rest of the tweet reads:
Gavin got elected that November [of 2018]. Now there’s about 50% more homeless people now in CA than at the time of this video. And housing in CA has almost never been less affordable.
According to Gavin Newsom, Gavin Newsom has been a complete failure as Governor of CA.
June, 2018. While campaigning, Gavin Newsom says that if the next governor doesn’t do something to improve the housing affordability and homelessness situations in CA, that governor will be a failure.
Gavin got elected that November. Now there’s about 50% more homeless people… pic.twitter.com/SH2fIJZ0b7
— MAZE (@mazemoore) August 26, 2025
And in May of this year, Newsom made the following observation, as we reported at the time:
As a taxpayer, not just governor. I’m not interested in funding failure anymore. I’m not. I won’t. Time to do your job. People are dying on their watch, dying on their watch. I don’t know — how do people get reelected? Look at these encampments. They’re a disgrace. They’ve been there years and years and years and years. I’ve heard that same rhetoric for years. People are dying. Kids are being born.
Assuming Newsom does run for president in 2028, voters should take his words to heart and respond accordingly. Elected officials who keep making promises about eradicating homelessness that they can’t and won’t keep – and who end up creating an even bigger mess in the process – do not deserve to be reelected, and they certainly don’t deserve to be elected to an even higher office.
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