Plan for Overflow Homeless Shelter in Cleveland is Scrapped

The owner of an empty warehouse has decided not to let Cuyahoga County use it as an overflow homeless shelter due to complaints and concerns voiced by adjacent business owners.

One business owner said his concern was the number of men staying in the existing shelter, at 2100 Lakeside Ave., who were recently released from prison, including registered sex offenders.

Hold it. Just wait a minute.

The media and homeless advocacy groups have repeatedly said that the homeless population consists of many families displaced due to lack of affordable housing in a depressed economy. High schoolers throughout the nation are being sensitized and taught the problems of the homeless in the context of a single woman with children who has nowhere to turn. I haven't been hearing about ex-cons and sex offenders.

Is it possible that the liberal media is sugar-coating the problem? I'll make a wild guess and state, "Absolutely! And, all the time!"

Of course, "The Fund for Ex-Cons & Sex Offenders" might not garner feelings of charity in the general public.