Living on the same street as a homeless shelter.

[Anonymous]

Absolutely not.

[Anonymous]

A home for intellectually disabled adults opened directly across the street from my house a few years ago. Now, I regret not arguing against it at the time. We live in a relatively new cul-de-sac subdivision.

The employees are all weirdos who drive pickup trucks (multiple parked on the street at a time) with stickers on them I don’t like DD seeing when we go for walks. They’re all smokers so lots of cigarette buds on the street and sidewalk. At odd hours of the day you can hear the residents screeching. And so on.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Your front yard will constantly smell like urine.

But for equity reasons, you need to buy that home anyway.

This is the only correct answer.

In your messed up mind it is...

[Anonymous]

If it was really cheap and didn't need a lot of work and had rental potential as a group house, and I didn't have kids, yes, probably.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I live within a mile of a nice shelter for women and children. There have been no issues with it.
But the overnight shelters for people where they kick them out every morning at 6? Nope. Also would not be crazy about the short-term shelters for single men. Sorry, but the majority of single men who are homeless have issues—sometimes perfectly harmless disabilities but more often addiction and problematic mental health issues, and the shelters can’t really filter for this. Women and children are different — there’s a lot of different reasons why a mom with kids can end up homeless.

+1 We also lived about a mile from a home that housed women and children who were escaping abusive conditions. The home and yard were as carefully maintained as any others on the street. Even had ferns hanging from the front porch.

+2 we live on a street with this kind of shelter and have had no issues. They are good neighbors and I've also found them to always welcome our good condition toys and children's clothing when our kids outgrow them.

I think overnight shelters probably shouldn't be placed near SFHs, schools, or predominantly residential neighborhoods, because the housing is so temporary and even the people these shelters are for often avoid them due to not feeling safe there. Putting them in neighborhoods with lots of kids seems like a bad idea generally for this reason. But I probably would have lived near a shelter back in my 20s when I was child free and living in apartments in dense parts of the city. Those neighborhoods already had a lot of crime, lots of people on the street late at night, etc. I don't think a homeless shelter would be likely to make it worse, and people living in that kind of neighborhood are already okay with some of the downsides of dense urban life.

[Anonymous]

No, of course not. Absolutely not. I'd fight one tooth and nail. But thankfully our area is too expensive.

I'm not unsympathetic to the plights of the homeless but most are deranged people with psychosis issues and serious drug and alcohol habits.

[Anonymous]

I lived around the corner from a women's shelter and it was fine, never caused us any problems. Men's shelter...would make me nervous.

[Anonymous]

Unless you lived within 3-4 blocks of something like this, I suspect it would be completely unnoticeable. We have been living within 5 blocks of an overnight shelter and I didn’t even know until recently.

[Anonymous]

No, I would not

[Anonymous]

It absolutely depends. We're halfway between two shelters. One has all the problems that people have listed. The other is better maintained than most buildings in the (very nice) neighborhood, and anyone walking by would have no idea it wasn't just another small apartment building.

[Anonymous]

Not a chance.

[Anonymous]

The people saying "no" would have no problem scooping up foreclosed properties where prior owners are no homeless

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The people saying "no" would have no problem scooping up foreclosed properties where prior owners are no homeless

As long as they are homeless elsewhere and out of eye sight.

[Anonymous]

NO. Hard pass.

[Anonymous]

It totally depends. I wouldn’t hesitate on a well run family shelter. The big issue is emergency housing for men. A lot of hard cases are there and they get kicked out during the day, which leads to a lot of problems.