Commentary Los Angeles County voters in 2017 resoundingly approved Measure H, a landmark quarter percent increase to the county’s sales tax to address homelessness. It has not worked. Homelessness has become dramatically worse. When one hears what the City of West Hollywood is doing with their share of the funds, it is easy to see why. The city is in the process of selecting, by lottery, 25 residents to receive $1,000 per month. It’s called the West Hollywood Pilot for Guaranteed Income. But you do not need to be homeless to enter the lottery. You do not even have to be a citizen. What you must be is lesbian, or gay, or bisexual, or transgender, or “queer,” or “intersex,” or “asexual,” aka “LGBTQIA.” Straight people, regardless of whether you are homeless or how destitute you may be, need not apply. According to the city, the purpose of the program is …
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