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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What do you say about the people who's home value will decrease due to proximity to the shelters?[/quote]
I say (1) provide proof of this phenomenon and (2) spell whose properly.[/quote]
Different poster (who hopefully will pass the grammar test! :-) ).

HUD research paper addressing property values and crime associated with homeless shelters.
https://www.huduser.gov/Publications/pdf/support_1.pdf

[quote]Quantitative Analysis of Property Value Impacts

Overall, we found that the set of eleven supportive housing facilities we analyzed for the
price impact analysis was associated with a positive impact on house prices in the surrounding
neighborhood. ... 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/neighborhoods, [u]we found that the set of five supportive housing
sites located in low-valued, heavily minority-occupied (typically majority Black-occupied)
neighborhoods consistently evinced the positive price impacts noted above[/u]. [u]By contrast, the site
in the highest-value, overwhelmingly white-occupied neighborhood apparently had a negative
effect on house prices, as did another (poorly maintained) site in a modestly valued, high-density
core neighborhood having 24 percent of its population classified as Hispanic.[/u] 
(page xii)[/quote]

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Had you bothered to read the study you would have known that it focused on supported living facilities for the mentally ill and developmentally disabled and explicitly excluded homeless shelters and transitional quarters.  Fn. 1 at 1-2.  Moreover of the total of 11 facilities examined, for which there were two home sales within designated distances from the facility, there was only one located in a predominately-white neighborhood which had the highest median home sales price:  $195,000.  By the way, this happened to be a group home for individuals with cerebral palsy.  I'll leave it to others to judge whether you are being deceitful or just lazy.  [/quote]

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