Tourists coming to Anaheim could soon help fund housing for Disneyland workers, hotel employees and various other resort workers.
It comes as city officials eye reallocating a portion of tourism tax dollars collected to market the Disneyland Resort – a fund created through a self-imposed, additional 2% room tax instituted on resort hotels in 2010.
It’s the same pot of money that’s the subject of a scathing state audit released last January that led Anaheim City Council members to institute new oversight measures on Visit Anaheim, the city’s tourism bureau.
In their report, auditors concluded Visit Anaheim improperly gave $6 million of those public dollars over a span of a decade to the Anaheim Chamber of Commerce which then used it to lobby elected officials and support political campai