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# Letter: Libraries as homeless shelters
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/letter-libraries-as-homeless-shelters/
- Published: 2012-09-05T02:18:43.000Z
- Updated: 2024-12-03T21:00:48.000Z
- Author: Daniel Archuleta
- Tags: Letters, Opinion, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2025-11-06 13:52

Editor:

To Helen R. McRoskey,

You are so right ("Library not needed," Letters to the Editor, Aug. 21)! Why aren't you in the majority? As a regular user of the Santa Monica Public Library system, it appears that the libraries' main use is to provide a homeless shelter. Come on down and see who is actually occupying all the chairs and computers. See how fast the new library at Sixth Street and Santa Monica Boulevard Is deteriorating, the bathrooms and the furniture especially, thanks to the homeless occupation.

Rebecca Anderson

Santa Monica