The state has launched a dynamic new website dashboard devoted to housing, homelessness and behavioral and mental health, stuffed with data from multiple sources and all accessible to the public.
The site, accountability.ca.gov, was developed under the direction of the Governor’s Office by technologists with the California Department of Technology (CDT). The site offers various ways to access data from a variety of sources, including the California Department of Housing and Community Development and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. It also draws data from other online dashboards.
The new site went live as part of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s announced release on Feb. 24 of $920 million to be used to alleviate homelessness in the state. That sum includes about $160 million plus “the availability of $760 million in new funding for communities.”
In concert with the designation of those funds, Newsom unveiled the “new online accountability tool to help the public track their community’s progress on housing, homelessness and behavioral health,” the release says.
The idea is to bring together thousands of data points from the state government as well as from its 58 counties to provide a regularly updated database.
New State Dashboard Aims for Accountability in Housing Efforts
The initiative brings together thousands of data points from the federal and state governments as well as from California’s 58 counties to provide a regularly updated database on housing and homelessness.
