Dear Editor,
Re: “Residents chip in over homeless housing,” News, March 1.
It saddened me to read the reaction of some residents to the proposed homeless housing project. How can people who have so much material wealth have so little human kindness?
Why do the privileged residents fear that their children and women would become targets if underprivileged people lived nearby?
Children don’t instinctively fear or feel contempt for others. They learn that from adults. If children are to grow up socially responsible and free of prejudice, the best way is to let them grow up with people from diverse backgrounds.
Maybe we’d all benefit from a homeless housing project in our neighbourhood.
Sabine Eiche
Richmond
