Jean Guerrero: Back the plan that will prevent homelessness, not just scramble to fix it
Conservative pundits and politicians love California's homelessness crisis.
For many of them, the sight of people living on the streets doesn't inspire an instinct to help. It inspires a twisted glee. They see an opportunity to frame progressive policies as disastrous on Fox News, Newsmax and elsewhere.
One can only imagine how these ghouls feel about the rising percentage of Latinx people among Californians without a roof over their heads, considering the Trump-inspired surge in sadism toward Latinos.
Even before the pandemic disproportionately devastated Latinos, that group was experiencing one of the most drastic increases in and wages. The causes were not progressive policies, as right-wing commentators claim, but decades of institutional racism and economic inequality. Latinas — paid for each dollar white men receive — have it the worst, especially in Spanish-speaking households, which suffer the housing-cost burden of all.
