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Doing nothing, changing nothing, or waiting for one to two years till something better can come to fruition is a death sentence to so many and our town as a whole.

For years I’ve been trying to deal with everyone in charge of the homeless, out of a love for humanity approach, and I’ve gotten just about nowhere. Now I will appeal to your fear and economics, which are apparently the driving forces of the actions or non-actions of many. Please look up Kensington Ave. in Philadelphia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ta_8uTH9_1c  (only 70 miles away) blocks and blocks of humans addicted to everything and anything, all laced with fentanyl and xylazine (horse tranquilizers). They are living like zombies where murder and overdose are common place, and the city can’t stop it. Look up San Francisco, https://www.beyondhomeless.org/Documentary/ or Seattle, or so many big cities that keep pouring more money into a nonfunctional system: and their homeless problems and addiction problems keep escalating.

   Look up San Antonio, whose mayor said, “These are our people, and we can do better for them.” he invited the private sector and the non-profits to come together to figure this out and make something work. They have embraced the problem with their “Haven For Hope” resulting in 77% reduction of people sleeping on the streets of San Antonio for a fraction of what the city was spending on homelessness previously, while addressing and providing long term and sustaining transformational care.   Look it up! They have been the blue print for many other cities that are willing to embrace the homeless situation. https://www.havenforhope.org/about/tours/#virtual-tour

Presently, I believe our numbers are still manageable, if we act now. Fear and economics can be the motivation, but compassion, healing and problem solving must be the process and end goal.

Trying to hide and chase away our citizens living on the street, as I have witnessed for the past six years, is the recipe for making our own Kensington Ave., and once it reaches that level, it’s out of everyone’s control. Please, we don’t have two or three years to fix this. Now is the time, and it’s your watch and responsibility; ignoring it is, in fact, causing it.

I know the compassion, generosity and ingenuity of our community.  I promise that if our county and city leaders reach out to our private sector and say “these are our people and we can do better, and we need your help’, the help will be there. It has worked for me every time. Please don’t be scared to ask for help to improve the lives of so many and Lancaster as a whole. Let us be one community working together for the betterment of all. That will be an accomplishment to be proud of.

Thanks and much love –DC

A One Love World