It's so sad that our virtue signallers on the city council along with our mayor do not understand the need to disperse our huge homeless population. Notice Mayor Vinis refers to building a single homeless shelter. That just won't cut it for our thousand-plus homeless folks. We need several moderate-sized shelters dispersed throughout the community (all of them far from the Mission) so that we can break the culture that has developed around being homeless in Eugene. 

Also, the residents of these shelters will need to be able to stay there during the day, unlike what happens at the shanty-camps, so that they don't overly impact the neighborhoods.

Lastly, let's be honest enough to acknowledge that we have some real criminals among our homeless. We need to open the rest of the jail so we can prosecute and incarcerate as needed. As it stands, even fit, trained males are feeling intimidated in our parks. Perhaps our mayor should give up her car for a month and see what's happening.