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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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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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Read this report from @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 …
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"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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