30 The Queens Courier • APRIL 25, 2019 FOR BREAKING NEWS VISIT www.qns.com
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Everyone needs a roof above them
For years, Queens residents have had a
rather adamant message to the city whenever
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a homeless shelter has been proposed
in a community: No.
But a poll released this week suggested
that most people in New York City don’t
mind having a homeless shelter opening
in their community.
Th e poll included a survey of more
than 100 Queens residents, and most of
them indicated that they would support
a homeless shelter opening in their own
neighborhood (46 percent, to 40 percent
who would oppose it).
Small sample size notwithstanding, the
opposition goes on. Earlier this month,
a group of Glendale and Middle Village
residents marched outside the home and
synagogue of a property owner rumored
to be developing a shelter on the neighborhoods’
border; they would rather see a
public school built there instead.
College Point residents have also rallied
numerous times against plans for a homeless
shelter of up to 200 men in their community,
and are planning to do so once
again this coming weekend.
We’ve covered so many anti-shelter protests
in communities across the borough
over the years. Th e one commonality in all
of these rallies, we can safely say, has been
fear of the unknown, and what might be.
Much of that fear is rooted in valid concern,
of which the city — to its discredit
— has done little to allay because of its
“do it fi rst, tell people later” philosophy of
governing. We’ve written countless times
about homeless shelters being planned,
or even opening up, at locations with zero
advance notice to anyone, including elected
offi cials.
We don’t fully accept the poll’s results,
given the small number of Queens residents
surveyed. However, we know that
the vast majority of Queens residents
— regardless of whether they’re for or
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against shelters — want to do more to
help the most vulnerable people in our
borough.
If the city’s also serious about that, then
they must do more to address homelessness
while also keeping the community
involved.
Local elected offi cials, community
board managers and the media must be
kept in the loop on shelter proposals.
Public hearings should be held to gather
input from community residents (and not
just rabble-rousers), and the press should
be allowed to cover them.
Th e city must also be willing to adopt
other measures beyond opening more
shelters — such as the Home Security
Support program championed by Queens
Assemblyman Andrew Hevesi — to provide
fi nancial incentives for families who
are homeless or are in danger of being
priced out of their homes.
In the end, everyone should have a roof
over their heads — and the city and its
people must be united in achieving that
goal.
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