LOS ANGELES, Calif.—The Los Angeles City Clerk approved the circulation of a union-backed petition that aims to fund affordable housing and tenant assistance programs through a special tax on property sales above $5 million in the City of Los Angeles. The group behind the effort—Alliance for Community Transit-Los Angeles (ACT-LA)—began collecting signatures for the effort on Feb. 19, two days after the city clerk’s approval. The initiative, called “House LA”, is supported by more than 40 coalitions and unions. “We hope to get 65,000 signatures by registered LA City voters by the end of April in order for the initiative to be on the 2022 ballot,” Laura Raymond, director of ACT-LA, told The Epoch Times in an emailed statement. “Housing and homelessness non-for-profit community organizations and researchers know how to solve the affordable housing and homelessness crisis on a large scale, but they need the funding to make it happen: …