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"Wow, the opposition to this homeless navigation center is so crazy and unusual." "Is it tho...???"pic.twitter.com/VK6qcpu89P
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"Many parents aren’t happy with the choice of location. On Thursday, Nov. 1, about 60 people gathered at the site, displaying signs that read, “Protect Our Kids.”"https://www.ocregister.com/2018/11/02/residents-protest-tustins-plan-to-open-a-homeless-shelter-near-heritage-elementary/ …
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Meanwhile in Mission Bay: “Nothing against the homeless,” Joe Lovullo, another local resident against the project, said to the KRON, “but putting them here in a neighborhood where we all paid a high premium doesn’t sit well with me.”https://hoodline.com/2017/05/neighbors-say-no-to-proposed-supportive-housing-development …
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"And I don’t think my district would be very supportive,” said D11 Sup
@Ahsha_Safai. "Other supervisors who represent more residential, well-to-do or moderate-leaning areas that don’t have a lot of in-your-face homelessness were also dubious of the idea."https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Supes-OK-with-homeless-shelters-in-other-11189961.php …Show this thread -
No neighborhood is free of NIMBYism. "A homeowner who gave his name as Mark also rejected the idea of serving the neighborhood’s poor and homeless, and called out city leaders for creating a 'permissiveness and allowance where everything goes.'"https://missionlocal.org/2016/12/residents-want-tents-gone-soup-kitchen-out-more-from-city/ …
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@ggwash: "We fundamentally oppose the Mayor’s plan of equal distribution of homeless population — to build a shelter in each ward regardless of land availability and economic soundness."https://ggwash.org/view/41850/upper-northwest-hits-peak-nimby-about-a-homeless-shelter …Show this thread -
"The emergency allowed for speed in opening new facility, which promptly filled and then overflowed with homeless people, but it..didn’t avoid the generally expected response of “Not-In-My-Backyard” protests. ...neighborhood held demonstrations regularly."https://talkpoverty.org/2014/09/11/political-courage-and-homelessness-in-nyc/ …
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@HousingOC knows well, OC has not welcomed homeless shelters. "A proposed homeless shelter in Orange County is finding itself in a familiar predicament: the target of protests by residents worried about high crime rates and low property values."https://www.scpr.org/news/2015/11/05/55349/homeless-shelters-struggle-to-fit-into-neighborhoo/ …Show this thread -
"Thousands of homeless were evicted from the shores of the Santa Ana riverbed last month. The county wants to move hundreds more out of an encampment outside the Santa Ana Civic Center."https://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2018/03/25/homeless-irvine-protest/ …
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"Silverado became the latest O.C. city to turn out in opposition of a homeless shelter in its community, joining the likes of Irvine, Huntington Beach, Laguna Niguel and Costa Mesa."https://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2018/04/25/oc-rejects-plan-homeless-shelter-silverado/ …
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"..big obstacle for Transitional Aged Youth housing: neighborhood opposition. The pushback comes from NIMBYists — residents who don’t want to see these kinds of low-income housing developments in their backyards. They dispute anything from zoning..."https://thinkprogress.org/the-homeless-crisis-in-san-francisco-that-nobody-is-talking-about-2c0ce78ca5da/ …
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This idea was something I have been talking about for the last year, glad someone with the ability is taking it for a spin. You have to do something to clean the streets up.
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This is so fucked up. I live across from that spot and I support it.
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