Newsom calls homelessness and poverty 'poster child' of California's failures as a state

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• Gavin Newsom said during a new podcast interview that homelessness and poverty were the poster child of the state's failures and said the affordability and housing crisis was the "original sin." "The Ezra Klein Show" host Ezra Klein asked Newsom about his interview with Michael Savage earlier this year, during which the conservative radio host said, "So Gavin, the homeless thing is the turning point.
• When that man defecated outside the window, that was the beginning of the end of San Francisco, not only for me but for the whole city."Klein asked Newsom if he believed there was a set of problems in the state that was harder for him to see as governor.
• "Well, the affordability crisis, he’s 100% right.