Unhoused encampments causing concerns for Cambodian Buddhist temple in Fresno County

FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- The Cambodian Buddhist temple connected Clinton and Valentine serves arsenic a spot of bid for galore successful Fresno County, but a increasing unhoused assemblage is encamped against its walls, raising concerns among its members and monks.

"We don't privation our assemblage to consciousness unsafe coming implicit present and besides creating the wellness hazard for children that mightiness beryllium playing implicit here," Fresno Cambodian Buddhist nine committee subordinate Danny Kim said.

The temple says it has experienced issues with the unhoused for years.

"We caught idiosyncratic successful the eating hallway mounting up a structure oregon trying to sleep," Kim explained. "They near needles, paraphernalia, solid pipes."

The temple says it's helped the unhoused done compassion and respect, but the increasing information concerns person made that difficult.

"We dainty each quality being the aforesaid careless of their presumption and the unhoused assemblage is nary exception," Kim stated.

The unhoused are acceptable up connected backstage spot wrong region and metropolis jurisdiction, truthful the temple has been moving with some to lick the problem.

The city's information is wrong councilmember Annalisa Perea's district.

She says nary encampments beryllium wrong metropolis limits, but metropolis officials inactive privation to help.

"We did nonstop retired metropolis codification enforcement teams arsenic good arsenic our stateless outreach teams to spot what we could bash to beryllium a bully spouse with the county," Perea said.

The county's Office of Housing and Homelessness could not speech astir this spot specifically, but says solving an unhoused occupation connected backstage spot tin instrumentality a agelong time.

"Our process is ever to enactment with the spot owner, coordinate with the sheriff's bureau and our outreach squad to announcement the property," Fresno County homelessness programme manager Dylan McCully explained.

If the spot proprietor is not compliant with the county, the process tin instrumentality adjacent longer.

Perea says the metropolis has tried to interaction the spot proprietor respective times, but had nary luck.

However, Perea says determination has been immoderate caller connection betwixt the proprietor and the county.

The county's bureau of lodging and homelessness would not speech astir this circumstantial incident.

The temple is asking unhoused organizations for assistance successful dealing with this ongoing issue.

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