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From:Mary Craft <marymcraft@icloud.com>
Sent:Sunday, June 13, 2021 10:26 PM
To:Joint Oversight
Subject:Homeless Encampment
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Hello
I live at 94 Loftus Road, directly across Cape George Road from the site of the proposed homeless encampment.
There are no services on this 80 acre tract which the county owns—no electricity, water, sewer, reliable cell phone
coverage, or transportation. The forest becomes quite dry during the summer. I am very concerned that a fire
started in the forest will jump the road and burn my land, house, barn, animals and me.
Please use your influence to encourage the commissioners to rethink this plan. There are many other places they
can be moved when the fairgrounds (also county owned) can finally evict them. Many of the homeless have
addiction and/or mental health issues and can be difficult to supervise. Greg Brotherton has stated that he wants
to move the people here because there aren’t very many of us neighbors to complain. But is this the right reason
for moving the vulnerable population affected to a forest with no services? To put them out of sight? If the county
really is going to build a permanent homeless hub as they say they are, why not move the people to it at this time.
They are campers by definition.
Thanks for your help in this.
Hon. Mary M. Craft, Judge (ret.)
314th District Court
Harris County, Texas
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