Gavin Newsom: “We just did this initiative, Proposition one to provide six…”

“Reopen the mental hospital for double the population today. So we had half the population in the late 50s and 60s. Yes, of course. And we had 37,000. So what we're doing, We just did this initiative, Proposition one to provide six plus thousand new units. that were all throughout the state. And we're regionalizing along the lines of what you're saying. Mental hospitals, literally behavioral health, substance abuse, mental health. And literally it's the biggest investments in US history.” (47:15–47:22)

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