According to The Los Angeles Times, voters in Calif, are not happy with how the state is dealing with the homeless issue. A poll conducted by The Los Angeles Times and the Los Angeles Business Council Institute of 901 voters shows a lack of support for how the state is spending hundreds of millions of dollars. It also reveals that the respondents support a number of policies and programs that are actually already in place.
Three-quarters said they would support a “right-to-shelter” law similar to the policy that’s used in New York. Majorities of 60% or more said they would favor higher-density development, emergency tents on government property, shared-housing arrangements, safe parking locations, public bathrooms and showers, rental assistance to prevent evictions, and expanded mental health and substance abuse treatment.
But support was weaker for approving the additional funding that carrying out or expanding those strategies would require. Sixty-six percent said they thought money raised from Proposition HHH, a bond measure approved in the city in 2016, and from Measure H, a tax increase passed countywide in 2017, has not been spent effectively.
“There’s funds there to do these very things,” the restaurant worker said. “And it has not been done. And the red tape. They’re like, ‘Well, it just takes time.’ But I mean, the solution is there and yet they’re part of the problem.”
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