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News Federal dollars are available from FEMA to reimburse homeless housing projects, including hotel conversions, but logistical and political hurdles remain.

SW corner of 3rd St. and Main St., Skid Row, LA, 2003 © Camilo J. Vergara, used under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 We do not typically associate homeless with death. Yet homelessness is, in many ways, very much a death sentence. Life expectancy for Los Angeles’ homeless population is 48. (California’s, in morbid contrast, is 80.) This should seriously disturb the residents of Los Angeles, which for years has faced a severe homelessness crisis.

So, What’s in the Sausage? In July 2020, the National Employment Law Project and Partnership for Working Families produced a 31-page analysis of Prop 22 called “Rigging the Gig” and a 2-page brief called “Top 10 Ways Proposition 22 Hurts Workers and Communities,” found here and here. In their estimation, Prop 22 “would close off decades of protective labor and anti-discrimination laws in California for their workers.