Another heartless neighborhood turns away homeless veterans

I wonder if the "neighbor" understands that homeless veterans were willing to die for the sake of someone else and just need "someone else" to give a damn about them enough to call them neighbor?

Planned Ohio home for homeless veterans denied
Associated Press
Written by
Amanda Lee Myers
August 17, 2013

“It just tears my heart out,” said Willa Fletcher, founder of Holt Street Miracle Center, which provides housing and treatment for veterans. “They just need somebody to love them, care for them and let them know they can make it. ... As much as those boys go over there and fight for America and keep the enemy out of our country, they just have nowhere to go.”

CINCINNATI — A plan to provide housing and substance-abuse treatment for homeless veterans in the southwestern Ohio city of Middletown has been derailed by a planning commission vote against it, with panel members saying the neighborhood might not be the best fit for the men and that the home was too close to other shelters.

John Porter, the homeowner, said Friday that he’s exploring options to appeal the Middletown panel’s unanimous decision against allowing the veterans to stay in the house.

Porter and Dayton-based Holt Street Miracle Center had paired up to house three to five homeless veterans as they’re treated for alcohol and substance abuse, but needed the city’s approval.
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