sacramento: homeless in your neighborhood

To all my Sacra­men­to Coun­ty neigh­bors who don’t want a home­less triage cen­ter in their ‘back­yard’:

Let’s pre­tend that a triage cen­ter was opened in McKin­ley Park.

The neigh­bors are fu­ri­ous, they protest at City Coun­cil meet­ings. They claim it’s not fair to have a “pig with lip­stick” in their neigh­bor­hood.

They de­mand one gets opened in North Sacra­men­to and else­where. They de­mand oth­ers take on the bur­den of 100–200 hun­dred home­less. They yell about the de­crease in prop­er­ty val­ues. They scream about what the cen­ter has done to their neigh­bor­hood, the filth, the smell, the in­crease in crime, drugs, trash, fe­ces, dogs, etc., etc., etc.

Now based on what you just read, just how ea­ger would you be to have a cen­ter in your neigh­bor­hood?

Would you de­mand your city coun­cil per­son build one?

Yeah, I did­n’t think so.

Now, pre­tend McKin­ley Triage Cen­ter is suc­cess­ful, that they’ve housed 120+ home­less, that they have got­ten home­less jobs, I.D.s., nec­es­sary med­ical and men­tal health­care. Pre­tend crime in the area is no worse than be­fore the cen­ter, and McKin­ley neigh­bors speak about the pos­i­tives of the Cen­ter, about the re­duc­tion of home­less­ness in their neigh­bor­hood.

Pre­tend your city coun­cil per­son comes to you and says, “Look at the suc­cess of this cen­ter, the peo­ple helped, the mil­lions saved by not hav­ing to clean up camps, pay­ing for emer­gency room costs, ar­rests, con­fine­ment, court costs. Would you be open to us hav­ing a triage cen­ter too?”

Would you now be more open to the pos­si­bil­i­ties?
 

—Louis Warfield

Flom­mist Louis Warfield is a fab­ri­ca­tion spe­cial­ist who runs the award-win­ning Rhi­no De­sign Stu­dio, “You dream it, we’ll build it.” Copy­right © 2018 Louis Warfield.

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