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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You really haven't spoken to my point. If the goal is continuity and stability, why would you not locate a family near to where they would secure low income housing after their stay in the shelter? They could establish transport and shopping  habits, stay in same school etc. I'm just not sure the goal is the longterm welfare of these families, combines with safety (that's important - I'm not saying house them somewhere dodgy) and efficiency.[/quote]

And where would that be?  Do you think the homeless are all coming from one intersection or neighborhood?  Or that low income housing is only in one area?  Do you never get out of Cleveland Park?  Do you know that there is city owned subsidized housing in Ward 3?  (Betcha didn't know that)

There is no perfect location.  There is probably not even a central location since relatively few people live downtown which is sort of the middle of the city though geographically somewhere around Bloomingdale is probably about as central as you can get.

The homeless come from all corners of the city so it makes sense to similarly distribute the shelters so long as they are accessible to public transit which this one is.

You do get that Ward 3 got probably the least threatening cohort of people requiring housing and you are still complaining about it?[/quote]

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