We have enough room

There are around 18.5 million vacant homes in the United States.

If we assigned one to every homeless veteran in the country, that would account for 50,000 of those 18.5 million. If we assigned one to every homeless person or family in this country, we would still have over 15 million vacant homes.

That’s enough to house the entire population of Syria, if we wanted to. And yet we’re balking at plans for accepting a mere ten thousand of them.

Theirs is a crisis of war and violence, of poverty and hunger, but if we have the ability to help so many and choose not to, surely our own humanity is in a state of crisis too.