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The fight against the homeless shelter proposed for 400 McGuinness Boulevard gained momentum this week when local residents lawyered up and formed a corporation to strengthen their efforts against the shelter. According to DNAinfo, the Greenpoint Neighborhood Coalition, Inc. officially formed last month with the help of lawyer Andrew Stern.
The group believes that the shelter “threatens to ruin our current lifestyle and the safety and quality of the neighborhood.”
As we posted in February, Greenpoint’s homeless population is in a uniquely challenging position because the city has no Polish language programs available to help them. The problem is so bad that the city offered local churches $100,000 to provide shelter on cold winter nights, but no churches were interested. At the time, five homeless people had died in fifteen months.
Who the fuck are these horrible people “lawyering up” against the homeless?
How would this ruin anything about their safety or lifestyle? Aren’t there already homeless people in Greenpoint? Isn’t that the point of this shelter? To improve quality of life, and as a side effect property value (Which I assume is what these assholes care about)?
Something tells me these “local residents” are actually landlords and property management companies, but I’ve been surprised by the shittiness of your average private citizen before as well.
Dress the bums in stripped shirts, skinny jeans and goofy glasses. Heck they already have the beards. No one will know the difference!
What do you mean by dressing them up as hipsters. They already are hipsters, but they lost their apartments due to all the crazy rent increases in the area from the uncaring landlords. Their stripped shirts, skinny jeans and goofy glasses are either at the cleaners or in storage.
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I actually live in this area and what they forgot to mention is that these is not just a regular homeless shelter. It’s a place for men to go when they get out of jail and have no place to be released to. There are strict crewfew hours and if these people miss their curfews they are locked out onto the streets until morning. Basically all this is doing is putting violent criminals back on out streets.
Looks like there’s definitely not any room for released prisoners in the neighborhood since all the space has been taken up by the hard-hearted and forgiving.
Meant to say unforgiving.