Quonset huts worked before

Manhattan: Officials and advocates dealing with the homelessness crisis should consider implementing Mayor William O’Dwyer’s successful solution. Confronted with thousands of veterans returning from WWII in 1946-47 with no place to live, O’Dwyer built six communities of Quonset huts as transitional housing. These prefabricated dwellings were sturdy, clean and attractive, and provided residents with heat, plumbing, stoves and refrigerators, plus basic furnishings, for $30 a month. When the vets got back on their feet, they found their own apartments, and the Quonset communities were dismantled. This transitional housing was practical and humane and quickly built — in contrast with the proposed permanent “affordable” housing, which would involve much time, money and red tape, or shelters, which are filthy, infested and dangerous. Applying an old option today would not only save billions, but would save the bodies and spirits of the 60,000 people warehoused in dehumanizing shelters. Aviva Cantor

Trump is the truth

Bronxville, N.Y.: I can’t understand why your readers and writers praise Hillary Clinton and say she is truthful and that Donald Trump is a liar. It is Clinton who is a big liar. Your paper puts down Trump, calling him a clown, crazy, etc. If and when he is elected, he will remember all this. Clinton states that everyone will get free education. No school is free; taxes will go sky-high to cover this. Do you think we need more taxes? Think carefully before you vote.

Evelyn Ciota

Russian turn-on

Scarsdale, N.Y.: Donald Trump endorsed Vladimir Putin for loyalty and strength. I believe he is in love with Putin and should go to Russia and join him. I always believed Trump was AC/DC.

Claude Young

A threat to the Republic

Mount Sinai, L.I.: Thank you, Daily News, for your vigilant and factual opposition to Mr. Trump’s misguided policies in his terrifying campaign for the presidency. Electing this monster into the White House would be the equivalent of trying to make a king cobra a house pet. Karl Bean

None of the above

Bellerose: The clock is ticking. Election Day is drawing nearer and nearer. With any luck, both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump will drop out of the race, which would create the need for two replacements. In my opinion, Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck would be better choices.

John Calcaterra

Don’s dodge

Staten Island: Donald Trump Jr. says his father has a 12,000-page tax return and releasing it would detract from his father’s main message. If you believe that, I have a wall to sell you. All Trump has to do is release the first two pages of his Form 1040, along with his Schedule A. This would let us know how much he makes, how much he pays in taxes (by his own admission, he pays as little as possible — if anything) and how much he contributes to charity (if anything). This will not affect the audit, and he knows it and so do his supporters. Michele Corelli

Unfit by any measure

New City, N.Y.: Some people still believe that pro wrestling is really real. Some people think that the weatherman forecasts the daily state of the atmosphere really accurately. Some people feel that God does not exist. Some of these same people speculate that Trump is really suitable to be President. Joseph R. Human

Unanswered

Long Beach, L.I.: Looks like millions and millions of voters do not care to know the answers to the “14 questions for Mr. Trump” that David Cay Johnston posed (Op-Ed, Sept. 26). Those voters are well aware that they are not voting for a saint or a model businessman. Robert Kozak

A short list

Staten Island: To Voicer Shauna Erlbaum: Could you please list the freedoms that you believe our government has taken away? Specific things, as itemized in the Constitution and Bill of Rights. I don’t think you’ll actually find any. Carrole Portantiere

Clunky, but hackproof

Long Island City: The threat of voter fraud started when we changed to electronic machines. Let’s start a movement to bring back those old, trustworthy mechanical lever machines.

Euclid Carras

No more Kardashians

Voorhees, N.J.: Re “Don’t fret world, Kim K. is for Hil,” (Sept. 25): The operative word in the name of your paper is “News.” It is scary enough that Trump could win, but don’t belittle us with whom Kim Kardashian will vote for. Please stop making her and her ilk part of the news.

Joanna Martorano

Why kids get MetroCards

Kew Gardens: To Voicer Sherri Rosen: NYC is required by law (as are all school districts) to provide transportation to school for all students who live more than a certain distance from their school. Yellow-bus service is provided to elementary school students, but not once students are past sixth grade. In the suburbs, where there is not an extensive public transportation system, yellow-bus service is provided for secondary and high school students. We are lucky in NYC that students can use public transportation, because yellow buses would be much more expensive and would increase traffic and congestion on our streets.

Susan Gardner

Calendar calculations

East Meadow, L.I.: Your Sept. 24 editorial “End the school daze” misses several facts. First of all, for several decades, the school year in New York has ended on June 28, or the Friday before if the 28th is on the weekend. Second, Anniversary Day (or BrooklynQueens Day) is a religious holiday, and as of 1905 has been an official holiday in Brooklyn and Queens by act of the state Legislature. Students and teachers once had the day off only in those boroughs, but since 2005, it has been a staff development day for all city teachers. In high schools, it is used for work related to the Regents exams. Last, the June clerical half-day is used for preparing report cards, using data to organize the next year’s classes, determining who gets held over and who must go to summer school; completing and exchanging student record cards, and reorganizing staff for the next school year. None of this can be done on the last two days of school. If you want the students to have the 27th and 28th of June off, then if we don’t need to use the two snow days this upcoming winter, use them on the last two days and end the school year on Friday, June 23. Richard Skibins

Religion and the schools

Manhattan: Why not simply keep schools open on religious holy days? Decades and decades ago schools were closed on Jewish holy days — with many Jewish teachers and kids attendance was very low. Only a small fraction of kids and teachers are Jewish today. City schools are public schools and they can teach about the relevance of holidays. Why deprive kids of instruction?

Peter Goodman

Getting it wrong

Little Egg Harbor, N.J.: The same people who have been misreading the words of the Second Amendment are the ones twisting the words of a poem written in Old English and have construed them to mean whatever they want to interpret them to mean. In the Second Amendment “the right to Ossie Leviness/New York Daily News bear arms” is given to a militia formed to protect from an invading enemy. The last stanza of our national anthem speaks to mercenaries who sold their services to fight with the British during the War of 1812. Please educate yourselves properly before inserting your own interpretation of facts that you are not able to prove. Rose S. Wilson

King of the fairway

Oak Ridge N.J.: For once, it was nice to see on the front page of the Daily New someone who died of natural causes and not someone shot to death. Such was the case of Arnold Palmer’s death announcement. RIP, Arnie.

Jim Heimbuch

Perfect pitch

Cold Spring, N.Y.: Thank you to the amazing Adele for two hours of sheer delight and for loving NYC and the Bronx Zoo. I was at her Madison Square Garden concert on Thursday where she said she went to the Bronx Zoo the day before and that we are very lucky to have such a wonderful place — and I agree. She raved about NYC, the Bronx Zoo and how special N.Y. fans are. She was on mark the entire night. It was just amazing! Laura Kissack

Too loud

Bronx: Please tell me why trailers at the movies have to be so loud. I thought this was supposed to be taken care of years ago. I guess they don’t care about making people go deaf at an early age.

Mary Caggiano