Los Angeles Housing Bonds

In response to “Housing Measure Gets Wide Support” (Metro, Oct. 26):

Prop. K is seriously flawed despite the apple pie-and-motherhood tone of your report. Underneath the high-sounding rhetoric is the nasty fact that monies raised will be used to perpetuate HUD housing in many neighborhoods that contain a disproportionate number of such buildings. When many such buildings are concentrated in just a few areas of the city, the effect is one of destroying neighborhoods and creation of high-crime areas.

In fact, Prop. K should be called the dope dealers protection act because it providesa safe and subsidized refuge from which they can sally forth to sell their wares and assault neighbors living in close proximity.

Poor people deserve decent housing. But public housing programs are only popular if they are in someone else’s neighborhood. Prop. K, rather than dispersing such projects, makes sure that the same areas that have endured a disproportionate share will continue to be burdened.

If you don’t want to protect dope dealers, increase crime and add several hundred dollars to your tax bill, vote no on K.

ED WEINSTOCK

Los Angeles