The only way to insure equality of outcome is to make everyone equally miserable. Except for the party elite, and the nomenklatura. They're special, you see.

One question. Where would I get this prescription filled?
One comment. You can’t fix stupid.

I want a prescription for a much smaller state government.

Newsom says, "Doctors should be able to write prescriptions for housing..."

Like one of those $700,000-per-unit housing-for-the-homeless projects (i.e. money stream to corrupt politicians and their cronies) they've been talking about? Add another $$Hundred-or-two $$Trillion to the cost of medicare-for-all.

Newsom asks, "What’s more fundamental to a person’s well being than a roof over their head?"

Ok, add more $$Trillions for prescription air, water, food and clothing.

I like the first response to Newsom's tweet by Robby Starbuck: "Gavin... Are you a comedian now? Are you high? Stop it."

He goes on, "Why don’t you try less regulation, more incentives for developers to want to build in CA, empowering police and not taxing the middle class out of CA?... There’s a reason more people moved out of CA last year than came."

Just like the medication you have to pay or have insurance that pays. Imagine how much housing insurance is going to cost!

They paying part is the issue, not the subscription in most cases.

I can see it now...OK your insurance company only pays for generic housing and the co-pay on your one month prescription is $1500.

Having everyone have a home isn't necessarily equality of outcome, unless everyone has an identical home.

Newsom does have a few good points dispersed among his utter stupid-ass nonsense:

"[utter stupid ass nonsense]" followed by, "We need to start treating brain health like we do physical health." [Followed by more utter stupid-ass nonsense]

"10 million Californians—1 in 4—suffer from some type of behavioral health condition." -- I think he's grossly underestimating the situation in California. Being afflicted himself probably makes it hard for him to connect with reality.

"[More utter stupid-ass nonsense]"

"Physical health and brain health are inextricably linked." -- Duh. Brains are physical organs that control behavior, perception, thinking and ability, something 90% of the healthcare system hasn't realized yet.

"And our healthcare system has been designed to treat only one of those."

With politically correct, woke progressives working on the problem it's bound to get a lot worse. Leftists/liberals/progressives/Democrats are good at whitewashing tombs.

Well, it is called the land of fruits and nuts, Ken R.

"... something 90% of the healthcare system hasn't realized yet."

I think lots of people understand that. What they don't know is what to do about it. Most mental problems don't appear to have a solution. At least not today.

Banker: "Imagine how much housing insurance is going to cost!"

Just add a mortgage payment to your obamacare premium. Then figure your $6,000 deductible and 30% co-insurance. Housing would be even less affordable to the middle-class and poor, just like healthcare is less affordable when you consider the sky-high premiums, deductibles and co-insurance of obamacare.

I have lived in places where mobile homes (not motor-homes) were a viable option. I know lots of people who started owning a mobile home, and the more run down trailer parks allow poor folk to have decent housing. In LA and San fran these are banned. It is an entirely gov caused problem. They view developers as evil and make insane demands on them (you can build this 12 unit apt building if you also build 12 low income units blah blah).

"Doctors should be able to write prescriptions for housing..."

They can.

When doctors write a prescription for medication, they don't give you the medication. You still have to go to the pharmacy to pick it up - and provide some kind of monetary compensation for it.

If a doctor were able to prescribe that you get a house, you'd have to do the shopping and buy one yourself. There's nothing magical about a doctor's prescription; it won't solve any "housing crisis."

CC that's a good solution.`

Ken "With politically correct, woke progressives working on the problem it's bound to get a lot worse."

They will simply redefine those 1/4 Californians as sane and define the other 3/4 as needing re- education till they see the world as the same.

A little more from City Journal on Newsom's State of the State and homelessness:

Newsom declined to offer state leadership on the issue of greatest regional importance: law enforcement. With the Ninth Circuit’s 2018 ruling in Martin v. Boise, which effectively prevents municipalities from outright bans on street camping, cities possess fewer options on disorder-related questions, such as how to deal with mass homeless encampments. Say you’re the mayor of a modest-size city in the Central Valley, and you want to do something about a downtown tent encampment. As soon as you start raising the issue, you get a letter from a Los Angeles-based lawyer threatening to sue if you don’t adhere to the ACLU’s dictates on encampment policy. Most local officials in that scenario will back down from trying their case in court. Thus, the practical effect of Martin is policymaking by legal advocates. This satisfies no one, but to what extent can cities push back? Can a mayor of, say, Sacramento expect broad-based support if he decides to make public disorder his Number One priority?

AND

Oftentimes, the simplest explanation is the best. California politicians don’t want to commit themselves on public disorder because fence-sitting is the safer alternative. Polls in California show strong support for the goal of reducing public disorder but more ambiguous support as to the means. How much firmness the public would tolerate isn’t clear.

California politicians don't want to commit themselves on anything. That's why the state is governed by plebescites and court decisions. So no one in Sacramento has to take a position on anything.

Does Newsom mean that you shouldn't be allowed to buy a house unless a doctor prescribes it? Because that's what it means for insulin and antibiotics.

Boy, I'm glad I left California when I did (four years ago).