How Prop 34 appears to be excluding one LA-based healthcare provider

Many unhoused people may also not know they can register to vote, even if they do not have a permanent address. Californians without a permanent address can register to vote at the address of a shelter or the side street of the park or even the sidewalk where they spend the night.

Sacramento County is trying to bridge the gap by organizing voter registration drives at local homeless shelters and affordable housing projects. In addition to registering people to vote (they got 14 new registrants at an event in mid-October), county staff is handing out flyers with information on where to vote and telling people how to access the county’s online voter information guide , county spokesman Ken Casparis. told CalMatters.

The confusing case of Prop 34

Of all the measures affecting California elections, perhaps none is more confusing than Proposition 34. It’s billed as a health care reform measure, but is sponsored by a lobbying group representing the state’s apartment owners.

If voters approve Prop 34, certain health care providers will have to spend 98 percent of their revenue on patient care — or lose their licenses. But the measure’s criteria appears to apply to only one provider: the LA-based AIDS Healthcare Foundation.

The AIDS Healthcare Foundation, or AHF, has used some of its profits to fund rent control initiatives statewide — including on this year’s ballot.

Prop 34 is funded by the same landlord trade group that has spent millions fighting these rent control measures. And their support would effectively prevent the AIDS Healthcare Foundation from ever supporting a foundation again.