To the editor: Whereas I vastly respect The Occasions’ protection of homelessness points, the true headline for the Column One piece “Homeless and hoarding” is one thing completely totally different: Undertaking Roomkey — a response to the COVID-19 pandemic, a voucher program that funded Mario Blanco’s keep indoors — ended.
And he ended up dwelling on the streets once more! That is clearly not a passable final result for any program purportedly addressing homelessness.
Every time authorities offers funding for short-term applications to accommodate folks experiencing homelessness with no ongoing funding and pathways to maintain folks completely housed, we’re failing our whole group. And we aren’t fixing the complicated issues which have created a lot struggling in our midst.
Laura Kaiser, Los Angeles
