Nearly two decades ago, California voters passed a landmark tax on millionaires envisioned as a game changer for mental health.
“No one who is mentally ill and now on the street will be on the street in five years,” promised the late Rusty Selix, who was executive director of the Mental Health Assn. of California and a co-author of the ballot initiative, Proposition 63. “That doesn’t mean there won’t be homeless. But you will see a measurable decline.”
Read the complete article by Jessica Garrison, Melody Gutierrez, and Jackeline Luna on the LA Times website.
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