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Grass8989 t1_ja2ys3b wrote

This has to do with the legalities of being categorized as a “shelter” as opposed to a “drop in center”. Tho obviously it’s the right thing to do, we need to decide whether we want there to continue to be regulations regarding what can be considered a shelter or a “youth center” or “drop in center”

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CaptainCompost t1_ja3novy wrote

I used to live next to a drop in center in Staten Island. It was drop in, explicitly not a place people were allowed to sleep because voters/politicians would barely allow that, they really say/think, "There are no homeless Staten Islanders."

As I understand it there was one 'good chair' where they turned a blind eye if you needed to sleep for a while. But, there were frequently conflicts outside the place because someone slept longer than they should have, or at a different time, eating into someone else's sleep.

I know the issue is complicated but I really saw people knock each others' teeth out because they just wanted some rest.

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Astatine_209 t1_ja3odsh wrote

For reasons that are obvious to anyone living near a large homeless population, people do not want to live near homeless shelters.

Claiming a shelter will only be a drop in shelter, and then trying to pull one over on the neighborhood by changing its categorization, is unacceptable.

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