Editor’s note: This letter is addressed to Chatham-Kent council.
This sounds like a crazy idea to me, but you might consider it seeing as so many people seem to want to get rid of the homeless encampments in Chatham.
I mean, does anybody have a better idea, rather than moving the homeless from one end of Chatham City to the other?
Help move homeless encampments out of Chatham to CM Wilson Conservation area, between Chatham and Blenheim. I think it might be far enough away from most populated housing and if the proper amenities are supplied, such as washing and cleaning facilities, porta-johns and the like, with some round-the-clock security to protect The Children’s Safety Village from vandalism and theft, it might work.
Also, R.O.C.K. Missions and social service agencies could be providing meals and other food and fresh water bottles as well.
Transportation could be arranged to take the homeless to medical and legal appointments.
If this works out, perhaps some tiny homes or cabins could be built there, for permanent housing, year around.
Again this is only a suggestion, but possibly worth exploring the merits of such a proposal.
Does anyone have a better idea, especially seeing how many people in Chatham-Kent, don’t want the homeless encampments in or near their neighborhoods?
This and similar ideas, should be the focus of future discussion within our rural and urban government.
Frank Doyle
Chatham
What about us seasonal camper who campers who pay to live there from May to October. So if they get to stay there and us the facility does that mean we do not have to pay as well. As a business owner near downtown Chatham we had to deal with it next to Thames river with stealing, broken doors and them going bathroom in front foyer and nothing was done for us but now that it has moved now there is a problem with it.