The Bay Area could end its homelessness problem with an $11.8 billion investment, according to a report by the Bay Area Council, a business advocacy group.

The report, released June 3, calls for one-time annual investments totaling $9.3 billion and $2.5 billion. Authors of the report say the money could come from local, regional, and state sources, including a voter-approved measure that raises $10 billion.

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Keith Burbank is currently a fulltime reporter covering Alameda County and Oakland news for Bay City News. He has also worked on the Data Points project for Local News Matters, finding trends and stories about the region through data. In 2019, he was a California Fellow at the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism, producing a series about homeless deaths in Santa Clara County. He worked as a swing shift editor for the newswire for several years as well. Outside of journalism, Keith enjoys computer programming, math, economics and music.