Greg was a community leader the likes of which every community has increasing need. Innately kind, empathically understanding, unequivocally committed; with his eye on social justice and his heart on the individual with whom he was engaged in the moment. Greg engaged me to participate - as possible from my distance - in the Safe Ground movement, for which I am most grateful. His light will be with me whenever I appreciate the privilege of being of service. - Bruce LeBel, Exec. Dir., World Shelters

There is a an established concept of the "continuum of care": the need for multiple levels and types of shelter and services. Yes, there is a need for more permanent housing, and for more transitional housing. There is also an obvious need for the most basic shelter and services to allow people unsheltered, people who for whatever reason have no resources, to have some degree of safety, security and sanitation. Think of any offering of shelter and services for folks with nothing as being the bottom of a ramp that can lead to progressively better housing, or towards whatever is their personal preferred state. The ramp has to start somewhere... Sleeping in a tent seems like a natural step, particularly when it's on private property, with the permission of the owner, on a parcel that's already zoned for emergency shelter as a principally permitted use.