Hi.
I've lived in Asbury Park for about a year now. I've been attracted to
this community because of its mix and seeming compassion for the less
fortunate that live here. I haven't followed the Market Street Mission
project terribly closely but I've kept my eye on it. Because I support
it, mostly.
I had some concerns about the "Stand Up For Asbury" organization from
the beginning. When I went to the website, they originally talked
about there being seven homeless shelters in Asbury Park, an
overestimation by seven. Once I discovered that, there was little on
that website I felt I could believe.
There are reservations that I feel towards this specific
organization's plans - especially in the area of religious inculcation
to house homeless people in need of a bed, but its something I can
live with. I also have concerns with bussing in other homeless people,
especially if it is at the expense of the homeless population in
Asbury Park, which is pretty sizeable for the size of our city.
I think that there are a lot of concerns that can be mediated out with
the construction of a homeless shelter in Asbury - no matter who the
operators are, by creating a set of regulations to abide by in our
city. Helping to create something that can give some respite to our
own homeless issue can be a positive for our community, and dare I
suggest, may also reduce the amount of human crap found in our parks -
as I've read about on this list.
As for fearing sex offenders jumping into Asbury for "ripe pickings"
as some people would like to think is going to happen... there are
currently 31 Sex Offenders currently living in the Asbury Park area.
There are 20 more in Ocean Grove/Neptune Township. Those are just the
ones that we know about. Is there a chance that more sex offenders
will end up within our city limits due to this homeless shelter? Yes.
But put a new playground in somewhere, and we probably run a similar
risk.
Decisions to make this project a reality in AP should be based on
whether or not it will help our own homeless population problem, and
whether or not we can work with the mission's program to create a
system that will be a net positive to our city. So, my unanswered
question is this: how receptive have the Market Street Mission folk
been to working with the city to create a homeless shelter program
that will benefit all of us? Or is this an avenue we've left unexplored?
Roger Poulard
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "dfsavgny" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> --- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "justifiedright"
> <justifiedright@> wrote:
> > One of these scumbags raped a girl less than 13 years old. The
> > other raped an adult woman.
> >
> > Neither one of these guys committed their crimes in Morristown. Not
> > even in Morris County. Yet these predators found their way to
> > Morristown why? Because the shelter attracted them there.
> >
> > The shelter in Asbury will attract the same kind of pedophilia
> > rapists here, and the Mission will let them in.
>
> I have been awol for a while. On trial for 2 weeks. I'm with you on
> this Tom. Mission is bad for AP.
>
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