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California voters approve use of MH dollars for low‐income housing
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
mental health weekly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1556-7583
pISSN - 1058-1103
DOI - 10.1002/mhw.31670
Subject(s) - ballot , proposition , mental health , service (business) , capital (architecture) , state (computer science) , business , public administration , public economics , economics , political science , medicine , law , voting , politics , geography , psychiatry , marketing , philosophy , epistemology , algorithm , computer science , archaeology
Proposition 2 was approved by California voters last week. It allows the state to use $2 billion in bonds to build housing for homeless people that includes mental health care, Capital Public Radio reported Nov. 7. Proposition 2 passed with 60 percent of the vote. The money for the bonds was originally approved to pay for mental health services, not housing. Supporters of Proposition 2 on the Nov. 6 ballot said that while the Proposition 63 tax on income exceeding $1 million has resulted in a huge benefit for mental health service enhancement, the problem of homelessness has only worsened since the Mental Health Services Act's enhancement (see MHW , Nov. 5).