No. of Recommendations: 9
How did free downtown busses work for Seattle?
I don’t know and would be interested to hear how they dealt with it. I would guess the homeless problem in LA is more similar to New York’s than it is to Seattle, but I really don’t know.
Have you checked the cost of daycare?
Not lately but I know it’s extremely high. That said, there is some room between “completely free” and “reasonably priced.” Again, I don’t know what that solution is, but it probably doesn’t lend itself to a sound bite slogan.
My sister, tasked with the same problem (with her own children) 40 years ago, started a daycare in a church basement and ran it for 30 years. The price was modest, the church did not charge for the space, she got donations as well as whatever the price was for the service, and she eventually passed it along to others to run when she retired. She took a modest salary, and one of the conditions with the church was that there would be no religious instruction given, although she is the church organist and “a believer”. That is, the daycare was open to all denominations at a low price, and its was quite successful. I don’t know how you replicate that on a scale that matters, but it can be done.
