Homeless Pinellas residents are moving into Pinellas Hope, a temporary "tent city" operated by Catholic Charities on 10 acres in an industrial area in mid Pinellas County.

The five-month pilot program was the multiagency response to last year's homeless debacle that thrust the city into an unwanted national spotlight. That's when St. Petersburg police caused an uproar by slashing dozens of tents belonging to the homeless.

On one end of the spectrum we have, I guess, me, or, people who feel the way I do. That is, we need to build housing in such a way that everyone who lives here can afford housing.

On the other end of the spectrum, we have the idea that we need to build housing that, in the words of newly elected city councilor Rhenda Strub, "most of us can't afford." The idea behind that being that we build housing that attracts people from other areas who are of a higher income level than most of us here now in order to stimulate the economy.

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