Homeless coalition facing homelessness

I can give you one reason why this is happening. Anyone remember when channel 5 news caught their staff on tape giving "homeless" residency letters to anyone who wandered in the door? Well, the welfare department remembers, and they dropped that group and no longer allowed them to provide verification of anything. After that, they began to lose most of their former corporate donations. The Coalition has been more of the problem than the solution for years. They have opposed every effort to move people off the street. They have sued for the "right" of people to sleep in parks, crap in public fountains, block sidewalks in front of homes and businesses with shopping carts --and of course, there are all those blue tarps and tents they purchased so that people could continue to live on the street. Their policies are old and tired, and they have run their course. They haven't had a new idea in 10 years and it shows.

Why do people in this country lack compassion? Why do people refuse to reach a helping hand to those in the greatest need? Why a country with such a strong religious presence, continually blames and reserves compassion only for those who are "deserving"? Why is there such a large gap between the rich and the poor? Why is this gap only getting bigger and bigger?

No I am not homeless, but I do have compassion for those that are not as fortunate as I. I do not believe that homeless people deserve where they are and the treatment they receive. I believe that they along with all human beings deserve to be treated with respect and dignity and deserve basic neccesities of living.

The coalition is one of those groups that shows compassion and works to empower homeless people to give them something to live for. With the street sheet they involve people in writing and expressing their opinions giving them hope. Through weekly meetings they get homeless people off the streets giving them something to look forward to and a support network so they will be less likely to fall through the cracks. And the coalition stays on top of issues that directly affect homeless people and fight for their side, a side that is often overlooked by the people in power, the government that weighs heavily factors such as tourist appeal, money ,money and more money. The Homeless Coalition is not about money, they are about people-humanity!, but they need support. In our world today money has become an inevitable reality.

Please support the Coalition on Homelessnes and support humanity and a leveling of the playing field. Give those less fortunate a chance to have at least a minimal level of existence and minute happiness.

Maybe you should ask the SF homeless coalition how many people thay have actually taken off the street and are now leading productive taxpaying lives. Answer?...NONE.
We all have at least a little compassion for the "truley" homeless. Unfortuantely the numbers in SF are extremely over exaggerated. The people of San Francisco should support a group that actually tries to get people off the streets rather than to fight for their rights to piss and shit on other people property.

maybe the author of the above comment would rather have the homeless lined up against the wall and shot. Or how about we put them all in prision with the welfare mothers and their fatherless kids. Instead of your whining why not try to become active in the community and search for a solution. Oh wait, that might be too real. The easiest thing to do is talk shit and let someone else do the work for you.

Homelessness is not my fault nor my problem. With that being said, I do more to help homeless people in one day than you have done in a lifetime. When is the last time you called for an ambulance for a homeless person? How about the last time you drove one to a shelter? Or the last time you stopped one from getting the shit kicked out of him (usually by another homeless guy)?
You obviously have only read about the SF homeless coalition and have never been involved. My point still stands. The are better ways to handle the problem than allowing them to piss and shit in peoples doorways.