DON THOMPSON
Associated Press
SACRAMENTO (AP) — California is asking the Trump administration to provide surplus federal land that could be used to build housing for the homeless, mirroring a new state program.
Gov. Gavin Newsom sent the request in a letter Tuesday to U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson amid an ongoing debate over whether Democratic officials in California are doing enough to ease the state's homelessness crisis.
The Democratic governor earlier this month directed his administration to identify unused state property by month's end that local governments or nonprofits can use, so long as it doesn't delay the development of affordable housing.
That includes state property alongside highways or state roads, state fairgrounds, and vacant hospitals a
