The Albuquerque news recently brought back memories of years ago when a church on Third Avenue decided to house homeless people. It didn’t last long.
After neighbors began finding human waste in their yards, people sleeping on their porches, trash and litter, the church stopped. There is a grapevine among the professional homeless, as was evidenced then. Yes, there are those who’ve legitimately lost much and need help, but many who choose to live this way bite the hands that feed them.
Those pushing this homeless camp might take a look at San Francisco: needles, drugs, trash all over the city, human waste on public sidewalks, vagrancy, massive rise in crime, harassment of citizens.
Albuquerque’s story was about vandalism of a child’s cemetery, the pain of a young couple whose baby died and whose grave site had been trashed along with many others. The director of the cemetery said there had been homeless staying there: needles, trash, human waste, city sidewalks with tarps, old furniture, trash piled up, crime, aggressive panhandling, etc.
Enabling accomplishes nothing but misery. In an eastern city, are “safe places” providing drugs for vagrants to shoot up! Seriously?
If this homeless camp continues, citizens will pay for it.
Denise Murray
Durango
