The Instances requested the candidates to answer written questions on how they might deal with main points if elected to the Legislature.
Gonzalez stated he would sort out homelessness by making it simpler to construct reasonably priced housing, changing business models into residential property and creating applications that give households entry to capital to allow them to personal a house.
“The homelessness disaster in California and L.A. County is uncontrolled and calls for pressing motion from our elected leaders,” his marketing campaign web site states. Gonzalez has vowed to work with Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass to offer reasonably priced housing, drug remedy, psychological well being and job coaching providers to the homeless together with investing in a brand new framework in California that goals to attach individuals grappling with psychological well being and substance use with a court-ordered plan to deal with these points for as much as 24 months.
Yi additionally desires to make it simpler to construct extra reasonably priced housing. The candidate added he would improve psychological well being providers and shelters in public areas, parks and transit stops.
“We have to cease our neighbors from falling into homelessness with extra lease management and aid to these on the sting of eviction,” Yi stated in a press release. On his marketing campaign’s web site, Yi stated he would put money into applications similar to neighborhood land trusts and nonprofit neighborhood growth organizations to spur the constructing of extra reasonably priced housing. Yi desires to repeal California legal guidelines that restrict lease management, proposals which have thus far failed within the Legislature and on the poll.
Alaniz stated she would deal with homelessness by way of higher psychological well being providers. She stated she would help reopening psychological well being care services and growing staffing but in addition expressed concern concerning the prices to taxpayers.
“We should assist the unhoused in our communities however we should even be good stewards and handle the funds of the individuals,” she stated in a press release. “I may even attempt for accountability practices of the funding being spent on these applications.”
Californians may even vote on a $6.8-billion bond measure this yr often known as Proposition 1 that goals to deal with homelessness by funding greater than 11,000 new remedy beds and supportive housing models together with psychological well being and drug dependancy remedy. Gonzalez stated he helps Proposition 1, whereas Alaniz stated she opposes the measure. Yi stated he was undecided.
