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John Lawrence's avatar

The parking lot at Inspiration Point was never a good idea with the number of tourists and others who frequent Balboa Park. However, it's hard to believe that the City of San Diego can't come up with a number of more suitable locations where it could provide safe camping. Have you been on Commercial Ave lately? Tents are cheek by jowl on both sides of the street with nowhere to walk and hardly any place to drive. I almost got run over by the San Diego trolley trying to drive down that street. I think they don't want to provide safe camping areas because every homeless person in the whole country would flock here. On the other hand it's a lot more cost effective than building shelters.

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Gloriamarie Amalfitano's avatar

There's something I've thought about for years as people debate the issue of unhoused neighbors is the number of Christian churches we have in this city. What part are these Christians playing to provide safe shelters for people? Many of them have campuses, parking lots, and space not being used for anything else. Jesus tells us to love our neighbors as ourselves as God first loves us. Jesus also makes it clear that everyone in the world is our neighbor. In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus details who we are to be when we follow Him. Were those of us who claim to follow Jesus were to actually enflesh the Sermon on the Mount, there would not be any people without homes.|

My In-Home Supportive Services homemaker is a devout Muslim woman. The other day she mentioned that she doesn't save any money. I asked her about when she could no longer work, how would she provide for herself, she replied that her family would take care of her. This is a part of their Somali culture. No one is homeless, they take care of each other.

The United States has this problem because we allow it.

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