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Give Them Shelter
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Sacramento News & Review
Published: October 26, 2006
Re “Flophouse Shuffle” by Amy Yannello (SN&R News, October 19):
The loss of more than 300 single-room-occupancy hotel units in downtown Sacramento has been a major contributor to homelessness here. As Yannello wrote, SROs “always have been seen as the final rung on the ladder before homelessness.”
In Sacramento County, a domestic-violence shelter had to turn women and children away almost every night last year. It is estimated that 15,000 people in the county were homeless at some point last year and the number of disabled, chronically homeless people is 1,600.
Proposition 1C, the affordable-housing and emergency-shelter trust-fund act on the November 7 ballot, will provide $2.85 billion for emergency shelters for battered women and homeless families, stable homes for emancipated foster youth and affordable homes for seniors and working families without raising taxes. Sacramento County’s recently adopted 10-year plan to end chronic homelessness cites Proposition 1C as an important source of potential funding.
By voting for 1C, you can offer a helping hand to those in our community who need it the most.
Julie SpeziaExecutive Director, Housing California
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