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11) Johnson, 64, suffers from kidney, heart, & vision problems.

He was homeless for about a year before getting connected to housing, medical care, & other services.

“We used to be a more compassionate country,” he said.

“I don't know what's going on.”

10) “There's nothing I can do about it but just wait, see, and hope,” said William Johnson, one of 20 seniors with disabilities in Solano County currently housed by Lutheran Social Services.

9) Kushel believes the funding delays could have irreversible effects for nonprofits combatting homelessness, potentially forcing some to shut down permanently within just a matter of weeks.

“When money is promised to them, they understandably expect the bill to be paid.”

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8) HUD doles out more than $3 billion dollars each year to programs helping the homeless. 

That funding, however, is becoming increasingly less reliable, according to Kushel.

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7) “This funding is really irreplaceable,” said Dr. Margot Kushel, one of the nation’s leading researchers on homelessness.

She says it’s nearly impossible to overstate role federal govt. has played in supporting homeless prevention programs nationwide. 

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6) We contacted HUD to find out how many other programs across the country are being impacted by the federal funding delays and to learn what is causing them.

The agency, initially, said it would “respond back” with answers.

It never did.

5) HUD, last year, pledged to allocate money to the nonprofit as part of an annual competitive process to award govt. contracts. But now, months later, the nonprofit is still waiting on $2.8 million dollars' worth of reimbursable federal funding to house and support the homeless.

4) “It’s very worrying,” said Carol Roberts, president and CEO of Lutheran Social Services of Northern California, which provides housing and supportive services to roughly 6,000 individuals and families across 10 counties.

3) In San Francisco, part of the federal funding was supposed to help house 30 low-income men and women living with AIDS, all trying to rebuild their lives after being incarcerated. But now, the program’s ability to remain open is being made “on a daily basis.”

2) Our Investigative Unit has learned homeless prevention programs could soon be forced to shutdown because their recently expired govt. contracts, which the Biden White House said would be renewed, still have not been paid out by the Trump administration.

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2) Right now, feds require all autonomous vehicle companies to report details involving every car crash, regardless if driverless cars were at fault. But a lot of info is redacted, for example, even the exact date of the crash isn’t publicly available- just month & year are listed.

2) Waymo partnered w/ consultants to review insurance claim data to see how often driverless cars & humans are found liable for crashes.

Since '18, Waymo says it faced 2 claims involving bodily injuries compared to an estimated 26 claims made against humans over same time.

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6) Last year, just before California regulators gave Cruise the green light to start offering paid rides, we took a Cruise of our own, but things took an unexpected turn.

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5) Cruise was forced off the road in its home state of California (Oct. 2023) after regulators said Cruise misled investigators about an incident involving one of its driverless cars that dragged a woman 20 ft after she got stuck underneath the car.
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2) So what happened when our driverless ride didn’t go as planned?

Cruise had to send us a (human) driver.

4) GM doesn't want to sell off Cruise though. In fact, it says it wants to own MORE of the beleaguered company. Right now, GM owns about 90% of Cruise, but it has agreements w/ other shareholders to increase that stake to 97%+. GM says it's working to get the remaining shares.