On the issue of gentrification...
A lot of locals who were born here end up homeless because it is so expensive to live in California, I was homeless for 2 years.
There are things that we can do to prepare our youth so that they can survive here in California, and there are things that we can do to give our locals a fighting chance at being able to live here.
We need to prepare our youth for the jobs in our local economy, which includes the Tourism Industry, over 160,000 jobs were created by Tourism in Orange County alone before the crisis, and there is the Entertainment Industry, etc.
So, we can train our young people for the Hospitality Industry, and we can make sure that they are able to form unions and obtain fair pay, etc. And we can train cooks, etc. Then we need to encourage local businesses to hire local workers. And students in high school can train for jobs at Disneyland, etc.
And we have the Entertainment Industry, so we can train the young people for the Entertainment Industry, and we can give the studios tax breaks if they hire local workers, etc. And we can prepare our high school students for jobs at the movie studios, etc. Of note too, is that we have some great schools here, we have USC film school, we have the Dodge film school at Chapman, and we have the AADA in Hollywood, we need to keep the talented people here when they graduate, and they can help our local economy.
We need to prepare our young people, and we need to encourage our local companies to train and hire local workers.
And our community colleges can help to prepare our young people, etc. AVC in the Antelope Valley trains students for jobs building aircraft, etc, and they go right to work doing aircraft fabrication, and we can do more of that kind of stuff. And Disney can work with our community colleges, and so can the movie studios, etc.
There are many things that we can do to give our locals a fighting chance at being able to afford to live in California.
Salute,
Tony V.
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