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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Are all of these inane posts coming from the same insecure McLean Gardens resident?  
[i]This shelter will be temporarily housing homeless families. 
Not the long-term mentally ill homeless.
I hope the folks who are posting about pan-handling realize that [b]most homeless are actually employed full time?[/b]
[/i]And the point of quickly getting them into transitional housing is to keep them employed and thus capable of paying their own way so they don't become part of the long term homeless crowd and so that their children's educations aren't interrupted.
But McLean Gardens go ahead and keep it classy and paranoid on here![/quote]
Oh good.  I'm a PP from several pages ago who was trying to start a constructive discussion about what requirements for shelter residents, and for community neighbors, ought to appear in the Good Neighbor Agreement that (the City claims) will accompany this shelter.  Here are some ideas I tossed out from looking at other Good Neighbor Agreements online, plus a couple others that someone added.  It looks like you also have ideas, so I added yours.  Anyone else have ideas?

1. No panhandling or begging by shelter residents. 
2. Any shelter resident who commits a crime gets booted. 
3. All adult shelter residents not enrolled in school must have a job. 
4. Any evidence of drugs or alcohol gets you booted. 
5. Adults must have regular jobs and provide proof of employment.
6. Children must be enrolled in school, and must attend regularly.
7. Both adults and children must attend shelter-sponsored counseling sessions, aimed at topics like mental health, financial literacy, etc.
8. Shelter residents with indication of mental illness will be transferred to a more appropriate facility.
9. All shelter residents will be families.  No single adults.
10. All shelter stays will be temporary - none longer than 60 (90?) days.

These are just examples to get the discussion moving. This post is meant as essentially a challenge for people opposed to the Ward 3 shelter, to name what good neighbor requirements would help you get behind it.  Interested in seeing genuine responses.

If we're going to have a spread-out system of small shelters, then it's up to us to propose commonsense and workable requirements.  What requirements should there be?  I suspect that if Bowser realizes she can get neighbors to actually support the project in exchange for a strong Good Neighbor Agreement, then Bowser may be pretty open to a strong Agreement.[/quote]

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