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Free housing has
helped Japan homeless
Re: “We should start holding homeless accountable” (Page A6, June 7).
The letter-writer condemned communities giving “free stuff, including housing” to the homeless. His claim that “Countries like Japan don’t have a homeless problem because they don’t tolerate homelessness” implies the Japanese have successfully employed a get-tough approach to achieving their country’s low rate of homelessness. Quite the opposite is the case in Japan and elsewhere.
Finland, Norway and Japan have reduced the number of homeless within their borders mainly by providing free housing. As Mr. Andrus wrote, “It’s not complicated people.”
Homelessness is its own punishment just as Christian charity is its own reward.
Tom McVeigh
Pleasant Hill
Where is accountability
for new technologies?
Re: “Privacy fight was a red herring: We need to be paid for our data” (Page A6, June 6).
Thank you for the important article about AI systems.
I am very concerned about what AI and social media are doing to our country and the world. Extreme leaders are emerging all over the world including in the United States, and I believe social media as well as television are big contributors to the problem.
I think that in addition to paying sources for their content, as your article suggests, we need to hold social media and television responsible for dishonest opinions. They are all publishers and, since publishers of newspapers are held accountable, so should they be.
Sheilah Fish
Moraga
Second Trump term
would be nightmare
Donald Trump will try to steal the election. He may even win fairly.
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Remember when he lied about Obama’s birth certificate? How his odious incompetence led to the needless COVID deaths of upwards of 300,000? How he stole children from their parents to send a political message? How he told more than 30,000 “presidential” lies? How he has been convicted of minor felonies while going innocent of the high crimes he’s committed? How eight of his closest associates have been sentenced to prison and many more have been disbarred or otherwise shamed? How many of his businesses are frauds? How often he’s declared bankruptcy? How he’s an adjudicated rapist and a serial adulterer who’s bragged about being a sexual predator?
Many of us lay awake wondering what fresh hell he’d bring to us tomorrow, and the next day. It will be one thousand times worse if he becomes president again.
Doug McKenzie
Berkeley
