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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The impact of homeless shelters on surrounding communities has been studied in great depth and there is lots of credible scholarship that they have no negative impact on surrounding communities.[/quote]
Let's see all that in depth and credible research.  Talk is cheap.

And looking things up on Google is easy for most people but apparently not so for you!  Here you go:

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.457.912&rep=rep1&type=pdf

https://citylimits.org/2015/02/25/after-the-shouting-do-shelters-and-supportive-housing-harm-neighborhoods/[/quote]

Yeah, yeah, that same 20-year-old report has been cited a billion times.  You need to read your own sources more carefully.  The ones you cited actually undercut your claim that the Ward 3 shelter won't have a negative impact.  In fact, they suggest that the Ward 3 shelter will decrease property values and increase crime.

[quote]While the average relationship between this set of supportive housing facilities and
proximate house prices was positive, not all site/neighborhood combinations in Denver
experienced the same relationship. When we disaggregated our analysis to measure impacts for
different common clusters of sites and neighborhoods, we found that the set of five supportive
housing sites located in low-valued, heavily minority (typically majority Black-occupied)
neighborhoods consistently evinced the positive price impacts noted above. By contrast, [u]the site
in the highest-value, overwhelmingly White-occupied neighborhood apparently had a [b]negative
effect on house prices[/b][/u], as did another (poorly maintained) site in a modestly valued, high-density
core neighborhood with Hispanics comprising one-quarter of the population.

... This finding provides the [u]clear implication[/u] that, [u]the greater the number of beds in a
supportive facility, the greater the incidence of police reports of disorderly conduct[/u].

Inasmuch as lower appreciation areas 
also typically had the higher values in 1990 and were predominantly
white-occupied, [u]reported rates of [b]violent crime increased[/b] in the
vicinity after supportive housing was opened in the more affluent sections of Denver[/u].[/quote]

Your report's key conclusions emphasize how important it is to pick shelter sites wisely, and to impose strict oversight on shelter residents.

[quote]... our results reinforce what our key informants indicated: developers must
pay close attention to management, education, and siting. [u]Nearby homeowners clearly can
distinguish between well-managed and poorly managed facilities[/u] ...

[u]Our central finding[/u]—that supportive housing generally has a positive impact on neighborhoods when
done at a small scale, but that [u]poorly managed properties can be deleterious to
neighborhoods[/u]—implies that public policy would do well to encourage both public education and
high-quality operation in the realm of supportive housing. [/quote]

So how much do we trust DC to ensure "high-quality operation" for these shelters?[/quote]

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