Good for our neighbors. I notice that Hotel 22 and Diradon Station in San Jose are filling up with mostly men and some women these cold nights. I don't recall seeing children as we did in the late Crash.

It's also a reality that houses in this area sell for 7 digits for the same reasons there are growing numbers of homeless. I know some homeowners are often struggling too though not with such dire stakes.

In the coming months we get to see what happens to the people sleeping around the railroad station. But also anyone of low income or just old on Medicare. We may even see in years to come families who have to make Sophie's Choice and decide whether to try to save their terminally sick child or to save the chances of the others.

Perhaps it's interesting that the new shelter is a church. I'm not personally religious, but must respect and wish the best for people who make such choices from the spectrum of belief.

We have a government in Washington now that takes its instruction from the Parable of the Talents, one not usually remembered in the Christmas season. Many Evangelicals do also:

"...Then you should have deposited my money with the bankers, and on my return I would have received my money back with interest! Therefore take the talent from him and give it to the one who has ten. For the one who has will be given more, and he will have more than enough. But the one who does not have, even what he has will be taken from him. And throw that worthless slave into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth."  Matthew 25:24–30

So happy to see Mtn View stepping up to House our homeless families. If you post needed items for the shelter you will get donations from the community. Now the needy can ride the google shuttle free to places in town and stay over st the shelter.
Thank you Hopes Corner for all your caring.

Kudos to Supervisor Simitian and Pastor Love. Special thanks to Pastor Love and the small congregation at Trinity UMC, which provides an outsized service for the women and children of North County. Without this shelter, they would have to go to a shelter in San Jose, disrupting jobs and schooling.