It is with great enthusiasm that I begin to follow your series on affordable housing in Greenfield. After the homeless encampment on the common was dispersed, I was aggrieved by how easily middle class life in Greenfield returned to business as usual. Meaning, “keep our homeless out of sight.”
No one I asked seemed to know where the 20 people had gone. No one seemed to care very much, either.
I find it ironic that the series began Monday; right after the unveiling of the yearly, ever-provocative Christian creche on town property, sponsored by the “Keep Christ in Christmas” folk. Greenfield makes it very clear that only some homeless are welcome on the common!
Opeyemi Parham
Greenfield