As is shown in all articles on the homeless in Eugene, they all come here for our lenient attitude. Little wonder that CSS maintains a waiting list. We can't put every homeless person in the nation in a squalid camp near the Whiteaker, though that is exactly what we seem to be trying to do.

Let's spend our resources cleaning up the addicts who want to be clean, doing some job training and kicking the ones who are just here for the free food and lack of enforcement into work crews for their violations of local, state and federal laws. Right now, the Mission is the only organization that is doing anything along those lines, which makes it an object of hatred among the friends of homelessness.