Hey Jim Griffith: Is your "valuable land" more valuable than human lives? What harm is it to build a permanent shelter on Moffett Field land, especially since this was government land in the first place? Why not build a community of "tiny homes" that are popping up in cities like Portland and Seattle? Check out one of these news articles and be so moved: Web Link

Resident of Sunnyvale. Sunnyvale Council is corrupt!

+1 Bodhi's idea.

A homeless shelter doesn't make "the city look bad". Not housing human beings who have no other options makes us all look bad. With our region's tremendous economic success comes consequences that our ingenuity, wealth, and compassion should allow us to handle in a humane way.

"...City council member Jim Griffith said he didn't want the shelter on city-owned land because of the possibility that temporary use of the "extremely valuable" land could easily become permanent..."

Shame on Jim Griffith and the Sunnyvale council! Of this huge expanse of empty land at Moffett Field, they can't agree to share a tiny bit for the less fortunate who have to sleep in their cars or worse? How do these people sleep at night, knowing that several hundred people in our area can't afford this ridiculously overpriced housing? They might try sleeping in their car. Just one job loss or catastrophic illness, etc and they could find themselves in the same predicament.

Shame on them.

Nothing short of a combination of arrogance and ignorance.
Sunnyvale never hesitates to raises fees for residents (see water, trash and sewage rates) and reduce services. Cut the staff who generate useless reports. Put the money toward alleviate suffering. It is a bloated city government without a heart.

Sunnyvale should follow the example of all the neighboring cities on how those cities handle the county's homeless situation. They should examine what Mountain View, Los Altos, Cupertino, Santa Clara and Palo Alto offer?

As volunteers for the homeless at the Sunnyvale Armory for many years, we learned that the homeless will travel anywhere for assistance and don't belong to any single city. On nights when we were too full, many would go by bus to the Gilroy Armory if they had room. And when the armory closed at 6:00 am, many would go the Boccardo Center in San Jose.

Funny how all your Mountain View residents jump down Sunnyvale's throat when your own city doesn't help out. Yet your council members sit pretty in their Pink Palace City Hall next to their theater while more and more of us live in our cars.

You might look at your own council before your shame others!

Being heartless when you have a chance to do for the less fortunate makes you and the city look bad. #becarefulkarmaahead

All you have to do to see how Sunnyvale treats homeless is to drive along El Camino and watch the cops harass the homeless all day long! That's all they do! Then you look at what it costs the tax payers and one day the homeowners and shoppers will be asked to dig deep! Right now the books look nice but in the near future (when this next bubble busts) it will be another story. Many of these "wealthy" cities will be in worse shape than Stockton financially!

How Hawaii has had to work on the issues involving their homeless problem:

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Note the converted shipping containers on Sand Island.

That solution is very possible for some of the " valuable land " that SV has..

if you drive down 280 through SJ you can see cold homeless people huddled under overpasses in the 45-degree mornings. I cannot stand it.
what better use is there for all that industrial area near Moffett? how exactly does Sunnyvale dictate what citizens do with former (or current) military land? I live in Sunnyvale, and the suffering is so much more disturbing to me than seeing a homeless shelter near my house.