Policy of evicting homeless

who sleep in cars cruel, harsh

A frail woman in her 70s sleeps in her car at Cubberley Campus in Palo Alto. The city is making its statement on homelessness by evicting her from sleeping there on Friday of this week.

In Palo Alto, Mountain View and other local cities, people living in RVs on residential streets and even on El Camino at Stanford have occupied a lot of time and attention.

Cubberley became a focus of homeless camping and parking a few years ago and Palo Alto evicted the homeless after Palo Alto City Manager Jim Keene declared Cubberley a “de facto homeless shelter.” And you could tell from the way he said it, he didn’t think it was something to be proud of.

I think Jim is wrong. Isn’t it time to change this mean, cruel, unnecessarily harsh and selfish policy?

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Chuck Jagoda

Sunnyvale

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