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LETTER: More money doesn’t guarantee progress on the homeless

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⚡ Sincity Press Brief

We need accountability and tough love.

Donna Coleman Henderson

June 16, 2026 - 9:01 pm

Regarding Susan Estrich’s June 9 file astir wealth for the homeless: I spent years volunteering to provender the homeless, and I learned that homelessness has nary azygous origin oregon elemental solution. Money does not warrant results. We spot the aforesaid signifier successful education.

This state has galore shelters, outreach programs, attraction services, nutrient programs and nonprofits offering help. The occupation is not ever the lack of assistance. In galore cases, it is simply a substance of whether that assistance is accepted and whether communities volition enforce tenable standards.

When cities let tents and encampments, radical often remain. Camping laws should beryllium enforced, portion those affected are directed toward disposable shelter, attraction and services.

We should proceed helping the homeless. But allowing radical to unrecorded indefinitely successful unsafe thoroughfare conditions is not compassion, and spending much wealth without measurable results is not a solution.

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