Cromey Online

The writings of author, therapist, and priest Robert Warren Cromey.

Thursday, July 08, 2021

UNHOUSED NIMBY

 So sad that people in San Francisco and the Bay Area complain about homeless but mightily resist low cost housing in their neighbourhood. Recently Livermore, CA and San Francisco’s Sunset District have loudly protested plans to build low cost housing in their areas.


Black and Hispanic men are the image of a homeless person. Racism keeps many from education, jobs and health care. Women, children and the elderly are also among the unhoused.


Expensive and luxurious apartments and condominiums are built but low cost housing is not. Even so called low income rents are often two thousand a month.


Serious Christians support low cost housing. People who live on the streets are hungry, cold, in physical danger, often sick and infirm. They are in the prison of having no shelter. Many have serious mental and emotional problems. Drugs and alcohol plague their lives.


Of course we need to feed the hungry with soup kitchens and free groceries. But only the government can help with providing food, health care and shelter to the vast number of unhoused people in our nation.


Followers of Jesus support all programs to heal the sick, feed the hungry and work for justice for all people.