Letters to the Editor: Did Project Roomkey really just end without a permanent housing plan?

Mario Blanco walks down the steps on the lodge in Downey the place he had been residing beneath Mission Roomkey.

(Francine Orr / Los Angeles Occasions)

To the editor: Whereas I enormously recognize The Occasions’ protection of homelessness points, the true headline for the Column One piece “Homeless and hoarding” is one thing completely completely different: Mission Roomkey — a response to the COVID-19 pandemic, a voucher program that funded Mario Blanco’s keep indoors — ended.

And he ended up residing on the streets once more! That is clearly not a passable end result for any program purportedly addressing homelessness.

Every time authorities gives funding for momentary packages to deal with folks experiencing homelessness with no ongoing funding and pathways to maintain folks completely housed, we're failing our whole group. And we're not fixing the complicated issues which have created a lot struggling in our midst.

Laura Kaiser, Los Angeles