To the editor: I don’t remember the exact date — was it 2016 or maybe 2017? — when I read in The Times about the billions of dollars needed to build the new soccer stadium in Inglewood, while the city and county were pooling hundreds of millions of dollars to try to end homelessness. (“The Little-Known $20 Billion Proposal to End Homelessness in Los Angeles,” Sept. 13)
At the time, the aid organizations I worked for in Los Angeles were still struggling to meet the growing needs of people in the post-housing bubble era. It seemed much harder to raise billions than millions, but we could predict what would happen.
What became SoFi Stadium was built in just a few years, and today the seats are filled with fans, while we now wonder if $20.4 billion could end homelessness as people remain on the streets of Los Angeles.
As the old proverb goes, “Where there’s a will, there’s a way.”
Kristin Barberia, Tucson, Arizona.
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To the editor: Problem solved, piece of cake, as easy as pie, child's play.
Are you listening, Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates and Larry Ellison? I'm not going to waste your time with a statement from Elon Musk.
This amounts to a paltry $6.6 billion each to end homelessness in Los Angeles. Do it and your legacies will be safe.
But not so fast. Don't put away your checkbooks just yet. If you have a moment, can we take a quick look at the next catastrophe facing and confounding this world?
Mark Richardson, Encinitas
