Your guide to Measure A: Sales tax to fund homelessness programs [View all]

In 2017, Los Angeles County voters approved Measure H, a quarter-cent sales tax to fund homeless services. If not renewed, the tax will expire in 2027.

A coalition of large nonprofits, homeless service providers and labor unions is now backing a measure that would replace Measure H two years before it expires and raise the tax rate to a half cent per dollar. The tax would remain in effect indefinitely unless repealed by voters.

Because Measure A qualified for the ballot by citizen initiative, it is exempt from the two-thirds majority required of government-initiated taxes. It requires a simple majority for passage.

The measure specifies that 60% of the proceeds would go to the county for homeless services. Of that, at least 15% would be allocated to cities, councils of government and unincorporated areas based on the annual point-in-time homeless count conducted by the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority. At least 1.65% would go to an innovation fund to test new ideas for future, larger-scale programs.




https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-10-03/2024-california-election-measure-a-homeless-sales-tax-voter-guide