How Local Opposition Is Derailing Efforts To Develop Homeless And Housing Facilities … Projects aiming to provide housing or services to low-income residents are meeting resistance from communities that don’t want them in their neighborhoods.
A nonprofit group focused on helping homeless people had $2.6 million in federal funds to spend on a triage facility to provide assistance last year as the COVID-19 pandemic devastated the economy.
But the Institute for Human Services was pushed out of nearly every neighborhood it chose as a site for the building, ultimately forcing it to abandon the plans and give up the money.
“We certainly didn’t feel like we had community support,” said Connie Mitchell, executive director of IHS.
