To the editor: Maintain your horses, I’ve been to this rodeo earlier than. (“Yes on Measure A. The county sales tax hike is essential to ease homelessness,” editorial, Oct. 6)
Seven years in the past, L.A. County voters enacted Measure H, a quarter-percent gross sales tax enhance that will make a giant dent in homelessness. How did that work out? Now, Measure A would double that tax, and The Occasions’ editorial board is endorsing it.
Throwing cash at an issue may assist, however after making an attempt to enhance the homelessness state of affairs for years now, some agreements must be in place previous to passing one other tax enhance.
I’d wish to see a sundown provision for Measure A. Such a deadline would add a way of urgency, and as soon as a tax is handed, it would probably keep round for good even when the necessity for it has been addressed.
If Measure A passes, how a couple of state tax deduction for repairs made to properties which can be vandalized? For not less than 10 years, my apartment affiliation has paid 1000’s of {dollars} to erase graffiti, repair damaged utilities, redo landscaping and canopy different prices related to injury created by native vagrants. The cash we pay is, in impact, a further tax for upkeep. Let’s get credit score for it.
Final, how about making accountability as clear as attainable? Displaying outcomes versus prices can be an excellent first step. I’ve learn articles reporting the per-unit value for some housing tasks is greater than $600,000.
I’m in favor of serving to homeless individuals who want and need assist. I’m in favor of public accountability for the cash we pay in taxes. I’m not in favor of dumping extra money within the public trough with out higher tips and sundown clauses.
Arthur Kraus, Venice
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To the editor: Thanks for the editorial on Norwalk’s homeless shelter ban. I modified my vote based mostly on this. I cannot vote for incumbents who determined that homeless individuals should keep homeless.
Whereas I don’t need individuals tenting on the pavement in entrance of my home, I’ve taken in homeless individuals previously. That’s not an excellent state of affairs.
So, let’s open up a motel and get these individuals out from beneath freeways.
Because the editorial board noted in September, the state Senate handed a invoice to make use of a portion of Norwalk’s largely unoccupied Metropolitan State Hospital for homeless individuals who have psychiatric or substance abuse issues. I hope the laws succeeds.
Pam Evans, Norwalk