Cudahy’s Plan Commission and others have resisted efforts to bring a homeless shelter to the city.
Here is the story in the Journal Sentinel story. From it:
Plans have been on hold since October, when they were shot down by the Cudahy Plan Commission, where one commissioner disparaged the homeless in his district as “stinky” and “drunk,” and another suggested they would be best exported to Milwaukee.
“We really thought by this winter, we’d have multiple sites up and running,” said the Rev. Karen Hagen of Tippecanoe Presbyterian Church, one of four churches in Bay View and Cudahy that hoped to host the shelter starting out.
“Here we have people trying to be good citizens and be faithful to their faith traditions, and it’s gotten so hard.”
I must admit that this story was frustrating to me — that some Cudahy officials and others are trying to find any reason, reasonable or not, to keep this shelter out of their community. “We must help the homeless … but not in my backyard,” they seem to be saying.
What do you think? Would you support this concept in South Milwaukee?
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Sitting in my warm home this cold winter nite, thankful. Would South Milwaukee welcome the homeless? Probably not, it’s much easier to help the poor, the homeless and the sick from a distance.
Well put and, unfortunately, too true.
This is the part that really bothered me:
“Plans have been on hold since October, when they were shot down by the Cudahy Plan Commission, where one commissioner disparaged the homeless in his district as “stinky” and “drunk,” and another suggested they would be best exported to Milwaukee.”
People should get out more and see what the real world is like.