We need to make a sustained, significant federal investment in our social safety net and housing support systems to address homelessness.
Increase sustained federal investment in social safety net and housing support systems to address homelessness.
Occurrences
He will continue advocate for solutions that boost California’s efforts to combat housing affordability and homelessness.
As California’s next Senator, he will continue working tirelessly to ensure California and our cities have the resources they need to tackle homelessness and create more housing that’s affordable for families.
Evidence
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Senator Schiff announced he secured $254,457,366 in federal funding for California for FY2026 through recent funding bills, including priorities such as increasing housing supply. The release describes this as federal investment delivered during his first year in the Senate.
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GovInfo bill text shows Mr. Schiff introduced S. 3464, the Housing BOOM Act, which was referred to the Senate Finance Committee. The bill proposed FY2026-FY2030 authorizations for housing and homelessness programs, including HOME, CDBG, supportive housing, homelessness assistance, behavioral health services for unhoused individuals, tenant-based rental assistance, and eviction-prevention grants.
Assessments
Schiff materially advanced the promise during his current federal term by securing enacted FY2026 funding for California that included housing-supply priorities, and by introducing the Housing BOOM Act to authorize sustained FY2026-FY2030 investments in housing, homelessness assistance, rental assistance, eviction prevention, and related services. However, the evidence shows targeted or partial funding plus an introduced bill referred to committee, not a broad enacted sustained expansion of federal social safety net and housing support systems. That supports partial credit rather than full delivery.