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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm aware of the opposition in Wards 5 and 6. It comes from a different place than the Ward 3 issues. I am not a fan of Ward 3, it's true. Don't live there. Don't want to live there. But it's not "an obsession or vendetta" because I was speaking about the specific concerns being raised on this thread about that location. If you'd like to talk about the concerns with the shelters in Wards 1, 5 or 6, I'm happy to talk about those concerns, though what I have observed is that the concerns are not "don't want those people in our neighborhood" but "we have 3 shelters already in our neighborhood" and/or "that site is not a safe place for children either." Different conversation. Happy to have it.[/quote]

You sound mad at ward 3 not sure why? Maybe because it is expensive and maybe because you can't afford to live there? I am not sure what the hostility toward ward 3 is but there seems to be a lot of wealth shaming going on in this thread. [/quote]

Interesting.  I am a homeowner in Ward 3 who just so happened to grow up poor (even being homesless as a child for a time) and I do not see the PP as wealth shaming at all.  And the PP is right - in comparison to the plan's detractors in other Wards, the Ward 3 commenters seem very elitist and shallow. If anything, they are poverty shaming. The implication FROM SOME is that Ward 3 is above shouldering the same burden under this plan that the other Wards will shoulder - without considering that the other Wards have shouldered most of the burden to this point.  And then you have folks implying that folks are poor and homeless by choice/stupidity.  Never mind that a lot of us are another 2008-2010 recession away from being in dire straits ourselves.   Even if we have to take on these 40 familes, we are still better off than the other Wards where these sorts of projects have been concentrated.  So the PP may be biased against Ward 3 - but the lack of compassion and "we are better than the poors" attitude feeds that bias. [/quote]

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