Commentary: Seeing the homeless, shocked by tragedy, haunted by questions Mary M. Fisher, For the Express-News May 14, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail Juan Apolinar Jr. loved to read and had moved to Brackenridge Park after his mother died. Solving homelessness begins with seeing the homeless as peopleMary M. Fisher / Courtesy photo While walking in Brackenridge Park on March 29, I came face to face with a late middle-aged man sitting on a rock wall just off Mulberry Avenue. He was clean-shaven, wearing jeans and white tennis shoes, and sitting by a grocery cart brimming with plastic bag-wrapped belongings, which I took to be all his earthly possessions.