Summary
"I'm based in the downtown area," [Robert Romero], who declined to give his last name, tells SFR. Referring to the Siler Road location, he says, "It's over a three-mile walk and back. It would take too much effort and energy out of my body to walk down there and back, to compensate for the food I was eating."
"In some ways things are worse here," he says, comparing Santa Fe's treatment of the homeless with other towns'. "The more wealth there is in a community, the more tight they are with it.. .like, they're spending millions on development and a little fraction ofthat could be spent on a shelter building."A central spot for social services is crucial, [Hank Hughes] says, because the city's homeless population is running out of space. When he spoke with SFR earlier this summer [Outtakes, June 18: "Northwest Quandary"], Hughes said the city's Northwest Quadrant development, slated to include more than 700 homes, should include housing for the homeless already living in the hills. The Santa Fe Railyard, which officially opens Sept. 13, booted out many of the city's homeless, creating yet more need.See the full content of this document
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Fed Up
Santa Fe's homeless are on the move again.
Last month, church leaders and concerned Santa Feans were told they could not serve meals to the homeless in Ashbaugh Park.The situation, as reported by The Santa Fe New Mexican, was due to construction on a fire station that sits nearby.The city subsequently offered a vacant lot near Fire Station 5 a...See the full content of this document
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