An open letter to a neighboring church in Ocean Beach:
\nI wanted to reach out to you regarding your church\u2019s well-intentioned efforts with the homeless. After driving last week into OB, my home for 40 years, I couldn\u2019t let it go any farther without saying something. I was appalled by the swarm of street people pushing shopping carts and camped out up and down Sunset Cliffs Boulevard. I realize there is a need, and your intentions are good, but your efforts to feed the homeless have become an “attractive nuisance” and created a blight on the community. Your efforts have had little effect on the homeless but a big affect on our community.
\n\u00a0Since your programs started, the homeless population in Ocean Beach has swelled, and droves of street people and drug addicts are camped out in people\u2019s yards, defecating in the alleys, panhandling and squatting in every doorway and dumpster alcove in the area waiting for the next feeding. It has to stop and some other way or location found to minister to these people.
\nThe word has spread quickly among the homeless all over Southern California and it has gotten out of control. Our little beach town is being trampled and cannot support this onslaught of mentally ill and drug-addicted street people living on our streets. Their presence is driving away tourists and putting an unreasonable burden and hardship on the business owners and residents of Ocean Beach. I was raised in Ocean Beach and would walk by your church every day as a child on my way to school at OB elementary. I wouldn\u2019t want my children running the gauntlet of street people that are up and down Sunset Cliffs Boulevard today. It just isn\u2019t safe.
\nIt is unfair and inconsiderate to your neighbors for you to continue being an impromptu rescue mission in the heart of our beach community, and I know that I am not alone when I say that this has to stop.
\nPlease consider our position and be a good Christian and a good neighbor to all \u2014 not just the homeless.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
An open letter to a neighboring church in Ocean Beach: I wanted to reach out to you regarding your church\u2019s well-intentioned efforts with the homeless. After driving last week into OB, my home for 40 years, I couldn\u2019t let it go any farther without saying something. I was appalled by the swarm of street people […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":726,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"11561","_seopress_titles_title":"Homeless help worthy, but a magnet for trouble","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[11593,11552,11561],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-295094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-no-images","category-opinion","category-peninsula-beacon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/726"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295094\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}