I thought, when I attended the Housing and Urban Development/Regional Planning coalition summit, that it was an honest effort to help the homeless comprehensively address their problems.
Instead, little has been accomplished except bureaucratic moves. Question 11 failed because elected officials and members of the homelessness task force did little to promote raising the consciousness of the people as to the problems of homelessness.
Today we have no emergency shelter since Mash Village is closed, and the tent shelter has been moved to San Diego.
The city of Las Vegas is considering zoning changes that will negatively impact Catholic Worker, the Interfaith Hospitality Network, Povarello House and new construction of shelters and programs.
If there had been transparency in negotiations on behalf of the homeless since September 2001, progress would have been made.
FRANK PERNA
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