Allysen the Shelter Director wrote in response to Barb Lickness... "St. Stephen's Catholic Church, Simpson Methodist Church, and Love Power Church have been attempting to open a shelter on the West Bank for approx. two years. There have been numerous public hearings and at least one article written in both the Star and Tribune and the City Pages about this endeavor.
In my new neighborhood there are many supportive housing units and half-way houses. There is also a new supportive housing development under construction on Central Avenue. Furthermore, 'Hope Harbor,' which is the newest supportive housing complex to open is on the north side of downtown, near the 'Evergreen Residence,' still another supportive housing residence that is fairly new and not in Whittier or Phillips". Allysen...the West Bank project, the Central Avenue project, Hope Harbor and Evergreen Residence that you mention...what neighborhoods are these in exactly? Just curious-are they in neighborhoods that have two or more supportive housing/community residential facilities already? Or are they in the list of neighborhoods below that have one or no facilities? I've lived here a couple of years and am not as familiar as I would like to be with all of the neighborhoods...I'd love it if you could inform me. I am familiar, however, with Stevens Square/Loring Heights and Whittier. Have you read the joint Lydia House Task Force report prepared by those Whittier and Stevens Square people you mentioned (I'm one of them)? Why would you feel "unethical" about supporting those neighborhood folks who are supporting the 1/4 mile spacing law? Shouldn't a person employed by the supportive housing industry support the need for integration of homeless folks (whether mentally ill, chemically dependent or otherwise) into neighborhoods with few facilities rather than oversaturating a few neighborhoods? Surely you don't support the reinstitutionalization of these folks by clustering them in 4 or 5 of the 80+ neighborhoods in the City by placing them in housing so close that a few feet of air space separates them? Do you think it's o.k. to increase the supportive housing population within a 1/4 mile of the proposed Lydia House from the current 28% to 31%? Or do you think maybe that the proposed Lydia House inhabitants might be better served in a neighbrohood that doesn't have almost 1 in 3 people struggling with mental illness or chemical dependency? What about the neighborhood-do you think it's healthy for a neighborhood to have this high of a percentage of vulnerable adults, do you think the currently oversaturated supportive housing population is better served by placing even more vulnerable adults in the same neighborhoods? Break party lines Allysen...you don't automatically have to be guilted into a feeling of "unethicalness" by your co-workers by supporting the well-thought out 1/4 mile spacing laws. What's ethical is fighting for the population you serve to have the ability to be housed in neighborhoods that are not oversaturated and not high-crime neighborhoods. Support the 1/4 mile spacing laws! MINNEAPOLIS SUPPORTIVE HOUSING BY NEIGHBORHOOD Whittier 23 Bancroft 0 Phillips 23 Beltrami 0 Stevens Square 11 Bottineau 0 Central 10 Cedar Isles Dean0 Downtown West 7 Columbia 0 Lowry Hill East 6 Como 0 Elliot Park 5 Corcoran 0 Carag 4 Ecco 0 Downtown East 4 Ericsson 0 Howthorne 4 Folwell 0 Loring Park 4 Fulton 0 Near North 4 Hale 0 Cedar Riverside West Bank 3 Hiawatha 0 Jordan 3 Hiawatha 0 Powderhorn Park 3 Holland 0 Windom Park 3 Keewaydin 0 Audobon Park 2 Kenny 0 East Harriet 2 Kenwood 0 East Isles 2 Lake of Isles 0 Harrison 2 Linden Hills 0 Lind-Bohanon 2 Logan Park 0 Longfellow 2 Lowry Hill 0 Lyndale 2 Lynnhurst 0 Minnehaha 2 Marcy Holmes 0 North Loop 2 Marshall Terr. 0 St.Anthony West 2 Morris Park 0 Windom 2 Nicollet E.Bank 0 Armatage 1 Page 0 Bryant 1 Sheridan 0 Bryn-Mawr 1 Shingle Creek 0 Cleveland 1 St. Anthony E. 0 Cooper 1 Standish 0 Diamond Lake 1 Sumner-Glenwood 0 Field 1 Tangltwn/Fuller 0 Howe 1 Victory 0 King Field 1 Waite Park 0 McKinley 1 Webber-Camden 0 Northeast Park 1 West Calhoun 0 Northrop 1 Prospt Pk -East River Rd 1 TOTAL HOMES 157 Regina 1 Seward 1 U of Minnesota 1 Wenonah 1 Willard-Hay 1 Submitted by, Lynne Lowder Stevens Square/Loring Heights www.livableneighborhoods.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Try FREE Yahoo! Mail - the world's greatest free email! http://mail.yahoo.com/ _______________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A Civil City Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest option, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
