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YIMBY Action‏ @yimbyaction Apr 5

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"group of local residents who join D6 Sup @MattHaneySF's concern that SF is using SoMa as “containment zone & dumping ground”...While we are strong advocates for more affordable housing in SF, we are concerned about the most recent Mercy Housing proposal." https://www.friendsofbryantst.com

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YIMBY Action‏ @yimbyaction Apr 5

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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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YIMBY Action‏ @yimbyaction Apr 6

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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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YIMBY Action‏ @yimbyaction Apr 6

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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 …

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YIMBY Action‏ @yimbyaction Apr 6

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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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YIMBY Action‏ @yimbyaction Apr 6

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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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YIMBY Action‏ @yimbyaction Apr 6

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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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YIMBY Action‏ @yimbyaction Apr 6

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As @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/ …

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YIMBY Action‏ @yimbyaction Apr 6

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"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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YIMBY Action‏ @yimbyaction Apr 6

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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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YIMBY Action‏ @yimbyaction Apr 6

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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/ …

5:15 PM - 6 Apr 2019