Newsom tries shifting blame for homelessness crisis to local officials

Last week Gov. Gavin Newsom donned blue jeans and a t-shirt to participate in a well-choreographed cleanup of a squalid encampment in Los Angeles, declaring that homelessness is the “biggest scar on the reputation of California.” That it is, and it’s an image that former President Donald Trump is weaponizing in his presidential duel with a Californian, Vice President Kamala Harris. However, California’s seemingly intractable homelessness crisis is also the biggest scar on Newsom’s governorship, one he wants to erase by blaming city and county officials for a lack of...