Letter: Feeling pain by Julia Snyder – February 23, 2021

To those on the Sunset Empire Park and Recreation District Board, I understand your decision not to open the Broadway Middle School, now vacant, as a shelter for the homeless, and I feel your pain in doing so.

Yes, there are people in Seaside who are homeless, huddling in doorways, under stairways and in makeshift tents, in temperatures in the 20s and 30s, in snow, ice and rain. But they are not your concern….

Read the letter in The Astorian here.

“I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything; but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.”

~Edward Everett Hale

“To end homelessness, a community-wide coordinated approach to delivering services, housing, and programs is needed.” —National Alliance to End Homelessness

“One thing is certain: There is almost always resistance from individuals and organizations seeking to defend the status quo.” —Housing First: Ending Homelessness, Transforming Systems, and Changing Lives

“… middle-class values cannot be imposed on those who have had no access to middle-class comforts.” —Lloyd Pendleton