What is being said is this: installing a venue that will cause harm to a neighborhood is okay. @KERMAN - YOU, YOURSELF are responsible for ANY harm YOUR venue causes to this already stressed out neighborhood.
We should do everything possible to get a women's shelter into the outskirts(!) of the neighborhood. Homeless women are among the most vulnerable of all of us. Privilege means choice: most of us have ample resources to manage disruptions in our lives. Compared to women living on the streets, we have countless ways of managing our personal safety.
My "pre-woke" YIMBY ethic of privilege is based on that ancient tenet "love your neighbor as yourself". It's not so much about guilt as about self-challenge and awareness. It's about seeking compromise via diplomacy rather than debating absolute negatives by raising catastrophic scenarios, blaming opponents, and setting up impossible demands.
Privilege comes with responsibility, part of which is developing resilience (something else that the homeless don't have much of.) Resilience is the learned ability to manage risk, hardship, discomforts, and challenges to one's aesthetic sensibilities by using imagination and ingenuity. I've found that kind of self-confidence that comes with resilience can have a rather amazing effect on one's attitudes towards one's fellow humans, which in turn is often accompanied by increased enjoyment of one's own life.
That said, this may be our last chance—if we can't handle our homeless neighbors living nearby, how are we ever going to manage what the Trump administration might throw at us? The nation they envisage consists precisely of this kind of fear-mongering, divisiveness and exclusion.
The City will absolutely NOT do anything to mitigate the camping, loitering and concomitant criminal activity and social behaviors of those who will congregate around this shelter. Past behavior is indicative of future results. And right now the radical block (Think Angelita, Candace and Sameer) are busy trying to defund our already enfeebled police force.
What gets me is when neighbors complain, they're blamed for NIMBYism. It is because they KNOW the City will take no responsibility that they are NIMBYs in the first place!
What is being said is this: installing a venue that will cause harm to a neighborhood is okay. @KERMAN - YOU, YOURSELF are responsible for ANY harm YOUR venue causes to this already stressed out neighborhood.
YOU DO NOT GET A PASS.
Repeating an earlier comment here:
We should do everything possible to get a women's shelter into the outskirts(!) of the neighborhood. Homeless women are among the most vulnerable of all of us. Privilege means choice: most of us have ample resources to manage disruptions in our lives. Compared to women living on the streets, we have countless ways of managing our personal safety.
My "pre-woke" YIMBY ethic of privilege is based on that ancient tenet "love your neighbor as yourself". It's not so much about guilt as about self-challenge and awareness. It's about seeking compromise via diplomacy rather than debating absolute negatives by raising catastrophic scenarios, blaming opponents, and setting up impossible demands.
Privilege comes with responsibility, part of which is developing resilience (something else that the homeless don't have much of.) Resilience is the learned ability to manage risk, hardship, discomforts, and challenges to one's aesthetic sensibilities by using imagination and ingenuity. I've found that kind of self-confidence that comes with resilience can have a rather amazing effect on one's attitudes towards one's fellow humans, which in turn is often accompanied by increased enjoyment of one's own life.
That said, this may be our last chance—if we can't handle our homeless neighbors living nearby, how are we ever going to manage what the Trump administration might throw at us? The nation they envisage consists precisely of this kind of fear-mongering, divisiveness and exclusion.
The City will absolutely NOT do anything to mitigate the camping, loitering and concomitant criminal activity and social behaviors of those who will congregate around this shelter. Past behavior is indicative of future results. And right now the radical block (Think Angelita, Candace and Sameer) are busy trying to defund our already enfeebled police force.
What gets me is when neighbors complain, they're blamed for NIMBYism. It is because they KNOW the City will take no responsibility that they are NIMBYs in the first place!