Newsom vetoes California Dream for All housing bill that would help undocumented immigrants
Source: KCRA News
SACRAMENTO, Calif.
Gov. Gavin Newsom has vetoed a bill that would have allowed undocumented immigrants to apply for first-time homebuyer assistance through the California Dream for All program.
The governor has until Sept. 30 to either sign or veto the 991 bills that reached his desk. In a Friday news release, Assembly Bill 1840 was the only proposal that Newsom shut down.
The bill would have prohibited the California Housing Finance Authority's program from disqualifying an applicant based on their immigration status.
Even if the bill was signed into law, a spokesperson for the state's Department of Finance said the Dream For All program did not have any money to provide, which was addressed in Newsom's veto message.
Read more: https://www.kcra.com/article/california-dream-for-all-newsom-vetoes-ab-1840/62083792
JohnSJ
(94,774 posts)financial assistance for housing?
Voltaire2
(14,407 posts)JohnSJ
(94,774 posts)Nonsense of helping them be a first time homebuyer is the way we lose elections.
Brown left our state with a surplus, and we now are running a deficit. No way would this pass if this is on the ballot, just like those wanting to repeal prop13 went down in flames.
While California is solid blue, it isnt far left. We have had our share of republican Governors to demonstrate that.
That being said for a lot of reasons we should provide healthcare to undocumented people, prop 187 which I voted against, passed, and impeded undocumented people from getting healthcare, which was not only immoral, but opened the door to potential spread of contagious diseases because people are afraid to seek healthcare for fear they would be deported
Voltaire2
(14,407 posts)as the migration pressure starts to grow. Not just here in the US, but everywhere that borders regions that are going to be increasingly uninhabitable.
A sane human response to a growing global catastrophe would find ways to integrate and accommodate as many refugees as possible.
Instead we are going to, here and elsewhere, take a very different approach.
Frank D. Lincoln
(358 posts)When she becomes president, Kamala Harris, especially with a Democratic-controlled U.S. Congress (both chambers), will provide that sane human response you mentioned.
Polybius
(16,854 posts)Let's not test it out over here.
JohnSJ
(94,774 posts)Sucha NastyWoman
(2,837 posts)Always Blue
(51 posts)Voltaire2
(14,407 posts)Raine
(30,585 posts)FakeNoose
(34,704 posts)... then they can apply for a first-time mortgage legally, along with all the other homeless people you're trying to help. The state of California is doing something to help the homeless. Am I right?
SouthBayDem
(32,414 posts)Of course we know how well THAT is working out.
I get it that Democratic politicians believe they are vulnerable on immigration. But I'd like to know when our party is going to stop retreating whenever the going gets tough.
Every human. Not just some humans.
LauraInLA
(900 posts)and the pot is tiny to begin with. And we (CA) have a big budget deficit right now.
LauraInLA
(900 posts)obamanut2012
(27,383 posts)I live here, and that was a huge issue.
LauraInLA
(900 posts)chowder66
(9,634 posts)I'm sure he would sign it if everything lined up better.
We simply don't have the funds for this right now.
Polybius
(16,854 posts)Shifting opinions make it a liability.
chowder66
(9,634 posts)Polybius
(16,854 posts)They are much, much further Left than what we have here in New York. We're just right Left.
JohnSJ
(94,774 posts)Demovictory9
(33,165 posts)So we pass lots of pro undocumented measures...
That's my take on it. Whenever there is a controversial law like this..it's championed by a foreign born lawmaker or 1st gen..from the community the law will help.
It makes it appear Calif is far left
kimbutgar
(22,456 posts)Maybe in the future though.
LauraInLA
(900 posts)first-time homebuyer program first.
FlyingPiggy
(3,673 posts)Brainfodder
(7,117 posts)Every one has cousins with housing just waiting for them?
Polybius
(16,854 posts)Don't come, it's too expensive.
rich7862
(80 posts)Newsom vetoes California Dream for All housing bill that would help undocumented immigrants
SACRAMENTO, Calif.
Gov. Gavin Newsom has vetoed a bill that would have allowed undocumented immigrants to apply for first-time home-buyer assistance through the California program.
Behind this ruling is the fact that rents and mortgages are un-affordable for all but the rich oligarchy. Because foreign buyers are buying property and doubling the cost of rents and purchases.
Foreign countries started this money fraud and Americans are right behind.
MichMan
(12,581 posts)Wouldn't that also apply to the undocumented as well?