To the editor: I’ve been lucky to satisfy many individuals whose lives have been reworked for the higher by the work of Skid Row Housing Belief. So, it is extremely disheartening to learn concerning the organizational mismanagement and horrible circumstances of most of the belief’s buildings.
Whilst organizations just like the belief have constructed extra supportive housing and positioned extra individuals into everlasting housing in recent times than in earlier a long time, we haven’t paid sufficient consideration to funding for long-term operations and help for residents.
Till policymakers give you enough funding nicely past the tax credit score financing system, we are going to see comparable challenges for different organizations that might create turmoil for management, workers, traders and — most significantly — the residents who’ve discovered therapeutic and transformation on this housing.
Invoice Pitkin, Los Angeles
The author is a senior coverage fellow on the City Institute.
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To the editor: The difficulty of homelessness has at all times been and at all times might be about human beings who can’t take care of themselves. A roof, a rest room and a kitchen should not sufficient. This isn’t an issue that may be solved on the streets, in hospitals or in nursing properties in the long run.
The query is, when will totally functioning residents acknowledge this and set up sufficient settings for individuals with disabilities or psychological sickness to be cared for?
Within the wealthiest nation on the planet, the burden mustn’t fall on nonprofits such because the Skid Row Housing Belief. It additionally shouldn’t be the accountability of California or some other state to create applications and fund the care of the disabled and unhoused.
This important endeavor ought to be the accountability of the federal authorities. We have to demand from our representatives a federal program and nationwide security internet, with therapy amenities in each state. We want housing, help and different assets for all Individuals who can’t take care of themselves.
Stephanie Kirschner, Agoura Hills
