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For the homeless,
group tops housing
Re. “East Bay homeless camp faces closure, however cash to assist residents is caught in limbo,” Sept. 15:
Rydin Street is, primarily, a functioning group — 80% who're native residents — that considers their RVs their houses and who can be greatest served by being situated on a parcel of land they may stay on.
Points stay, however the lodge room/shelter resolution doesn’t work; it rips them from their dwelling (the RV), their animals (a connection that solely canine homeowners perceive), and their associate. After their time allotment, they find yourself on the road in a tent. The “Group First” (RVs in group) slightly than “Housing First” mannequin (unavailable) is extra prone to succeed.
The elephant within the room is ineptitude; the $12 billion in state funds spent on homelessness attracts consideration to the underside line: the cash invested in holding the issue slightly than fixing it. This requires a serious forensic accounting and investigative journalism outing the greed and corruption, in addition to the bureaucratic ineptitude.
Pam Morris
El Sobrante
Give Alfred Twu
likelihood to be taught job
In your paper Sept. 11, you endorsed Joel Younger for the at-large seat on the AC Transit board (“Three can lead AC Transit previous monetary woes,” Web page 8). Please rethink.
You cite he's extra educated than his opponent, Alfred Twu. You skim over Younger’s unethical habits of which you made some extent in his final two elections. If he has expressed any regret for his unethical actions, it's only not too long ago.
You say his opponent, Alfred Twu, is just not as aware of the district’s monetary image. How acquainted was Joel Younger when he first took workplace? I might hope that within the intervening 12 years he has realized one thing in regards to the district. I imagine that over time Mr. Twu will probably be as aware of the funds.
Midori Tabata
Oakland
Guidelines of street apply
to bicyclists too
Lately a automobile driver ran over a bicycle in Oakland throughout a Friday night time trip of the East Bay Bike Occasion. The bike owner jumped off of his bike earlier than the motive force hit it and was not harm himself.
East Bay Bike Occasion is a month-to-month occasion that celebrates biking, which I feel is a superb concept. However we've guidelines of the street, for an excellent purpose, the place you drive in your aspect of the road and I drive on mine.
East Bay Bike Occasion contributors swarm the entire roadway, lots of whom intentionally strategy automobile drivers in a threatening method. This can be a passive-aggressive type of bullying. If the cyclists had stayed on their aspect of the street, this is able to have by no means occurred.
Respect is a two-way road, an idea that Stroll Bike Berkeley contributors appear to have forgotten.
Russ Button
Alameda
Vote for leaders who
have local weather options
Re. “Can California actually rework its energy grid to be utterly inexperienced?” Web page A9, Sept. 11:
I recognize Dan Walters’ cautionary phrases in regards to the challenges we face in reaching California’s local weather objectives. We have to know the place all of the bottlenecks are in order that they are often addressed. Citing initiatives that took longer than anticipated to finish or get underway, Walters questions whether or not the state authorities is as much as this process.
Nevertheless, the state authorities is just not an immutable entity, however slightly, it's made up of individuals whom we elect. On this election season, we, the voters, ought to ask all candidates on the poll how they plan to replace the grid and enhance its resilience, increase battery storage, increase public transportation, and enhance conservation and vitality effectivity? How will they work with others to coordinate the response to the challenges forward?
Assembly our local weather objectives is a posh and tough process. Let’s vote for political leaders who perceive the problems and may articulate concrete, implementable and measurable options.
Sandra Liu
Berkeley
Comply with the cash
to repay mortgage debt
President Biden’s plan to forgive scholar loans is an insult to each one who labored and saved to pay for his or her schooling, earned scholarships or did authorities service to earn instructional advantages.
The answer to “repaying” the big authorities debt is to “observe the cash.” After the scholar received the mortgage, the place did the cash go: the school, college, commerce college, on-line college or unaccredited college. As an alternative of forgiving the mortgage and passing the burden onto all of the taxpayers, require the final word recipient of the loaned cash to return it to the federal government. You offered a faulty product, your product wasn’t definitely worth the cash. You misled the scholars in regards to the worth of your product. The scholars didn't get a top quality schooling such that they may get a job and pay again the mortgage.
Possibly our greater schooling system would enhance if there was extra monetary accountability. Comply with the cash.
Ray Fortney
Danville