Behavioral health shift toward housing and homelessness
Summary
The state's new Behavioral Health Services Act forces a third of the county's behavioral health budget into housing and homelessness — a mandate Neely and Albaugh called out as out-of-touch with rural counties. The new transitional rent program helps people coming out of homelessness stay housed.
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Last discussed Jun 9, 2026.
Impact analysis
One-third of behavioral health funding must now go to housing and homelessness; the transitional rent program is reimbursed by Partnership HealthPlan.
The roughly 200 people on the county's housing services waiting list and Medi-Cal members at risk of homelessness.
Taxpayers bear risk if state or federal reimbursement rules shift, as Albaugh noted.
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