Am Alert: State Weighs Spending For Homeless Veteran Housing

akoseff@sacbee.com (Alexei Koseff), Sacramento Bee: Politics
Mon, 07/21/2014 - 5:00am

Facing no organized opposition, Proposition 41, a measure authorizing $600 million in bonds for housing and other services for homeless veterans, passed with more than 65 percent of the vote in June. Viternam veteran Lester Washington, 60, left, is among the homeless people who have set up tents on Union Pacific Railroad property near 7th and B streets in Sacramento on November 3, 2007.

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