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COURIER L 4 IFE, MARCH 12-18, 2021
BY ROSE ADAMS
Despite housing less than
one percent of the city’s
homeless population, a group
of Brighton Beach demonstrators
protested on Sunday
outside the mayor’s Gracie
Mansion home against an
incoming shelter for the unhoused
— saying their neighborhood
couldn’t handle
the influx of displaced New
Yorkers.
“Of course the homeless
need to be dealt with compassion
and care,” said Republican
City Council candidate
Inna Vernikov, who’s
running for the Brighton
Beach seat currently held
by term-limited Councilman
Chaim Deutsch. “But we
cannot accomplish helping
the struggling while hurting
our children and our neighborhood.”
Brooklyn’s Community
Board 15, which encompasses
Brighton Beach, Sheepshead
Bay, Gravesend, and Gerritsen
Beach is home to just
0.4 percent of shelter beds in
New York City, despite representing
1.69 percent of the
total population within the
Five Boroughs.
The proposed Brighton
Beach shelter comes as part
of Mayor Bill de Blasio’s
“Turning the Tide” initiative,
which seeks to spread
New York’s homeless shelter
capacity evenly across the
city, rather than clustering
unhoused city dwellers in
low-cost neighborhoods, as
Hizzoner’s predecessors often
did — all in an effort to
rehabilitate those who have
fallen into poverty by providing
them with services focused
on getting people back
on their feet.
Still, the 170-bed men’s
shelter proposed for 100 Neptune
Ave. near Brighton 10th
Street has sparked controversy
since it was announced
in late December. Some critics
have argued that the site
is not fit for housing, since
the land may be contaminated
by an auto shop and garage
that operated on the site
for years, while others have
found fault with the shelter’s
service provider, CORE,
which has been issued violations
for some of its other
shelter facilities.
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