A little more than two years ago, a state audit found that despite spending $24 billion over the previous five years to combat homelessness, the state of California couldn’t be sure how effective some of its programs were because of insufficient data.
The problem of poor data tracking and reporting on homelessness issues, though, is hardly confined to sweeping programs like Project Homekey. And when it comes to one of the primary reasons people wind up on the street — being evicted from their homes — that information gap is glaring.
