Continued PIP saga

Continued saga of the PIP. While Haller basically wags a finger at absentee landlordism run rampant in the district, a major crisis, perhaps the major crisis in the District, she continues to beat the dead horse issue of the PIP shelter in a recent letter to the Telegram. She wants to close it down, once again, as winter approaches. Why does she always want to close it in the winter, even after our experiencing four dead people directly linked to the cold (Mike Odorski trying to get to PIP freezes (Haller protested that vigil), two die in a trailer flier (Breault blames PIP), and the one death at Washington Square last winter)? But, then again, she doesn't support scattered site, housing first models either (i.e. house the homeless in the their own homes). She made sure she was at the the recent major housing conference in the city, where, ironically, she received applause as elected officials were acknowledged (what is her housing policy anyway?) She was there with other housing malcontents Breault and Comeux, who are known to oppose housing first.

So, if we close the PIP, and we don't create new housing, where do the estimated 100-200 PIP residents go exactly?

ALSO, ISN'T SHE SUPPOSED TO REPRESENT THESE PEOPLE AS THEY LIVE IN HER DISTRICT???

Just another example of how Haller chooses to represent the elites in the district, and ignore, or malign, the poor. Perhaps we can build snow caves for them this Christmas.

Lynne Simonds for District Four