Pastor Ann Kansfield spoke to a hearing of Council housing homeless plan community. (Miranda Neubauer/The Brooklyn ink)
By Miranda Neubauer
Residents at a recent hearing board community regarding a new shelter homeless in the figure expressed predictable concerns that addition add to the problems of crime and drugs among the homeless in the voisinage.Mais a leader of the community, said tenor perennials like those obscured arguments anti-social behaviour how traditional Polish figure neighbourhood exists separately from the roaming.
For the city in response to the community shelter again, opposition representatives proposed by non-profit group helps the United States, question exceeds as simply providing shelter to those in need.
"I have enough beds tonight," George Nashak, Deputy Commissioner of the Department of the city of homeless services said in a contentious Community Council hearing in figure on the question, what it says it is a problem much more big tries to convince some of the people who need housing to accept it.
Packaged in the foyer residents national Polish figure heard Alex DHS Zablocki and Nashak, who explained the process of approval of the proposed shelter without abri.Lorsque Nashak confirmed that the target population for the shelter would be 200 single men strong screams erupted between the inhabitants, who raised concerns about needles in parks, safety hazard for children on the streets night.
Ann Kansfield, who spoke at the hearing, is pastor of the reformed church of figure and he said in an interview that his Church offers weekly dinners Wednesday Church attracts up to 50 people, many of them without abri.Dans interview, however, she said without shelter in the public conversation as trompeur.Dans figure, she said, other contributing factors should be considered, such as the influence of the Polish culture and latitude for the action of police and the city.
"One of the things in our neighbourhood which makes it more difficult to speak of homeless people is that there are people who are homeless, they are not actual shelter and a lot of people that appearance without shelter or homeless but who actually have a shelter," she says.
She emphasized the hotel figure, a cheap private hotel single-room-occupancy that The New York Times, highlighted in 2006 a refuge for the use of drugs and unsanitary conditions. "Hotel figure has a horrible to be a very bad neighbor history" she says. ""But the people who live in a hotel listed are not homeless."
The neighbourhood has a large population with and homeless people who are alcoholic chronic or mentally ill who camp in the parks and urinate on the property of anyone, she says.
"I had for example, a man who has slipped into the Church, sitting in the Reserve Bank and urinated on itself and in the Church," Kansfield recalled."And when I'm gone and called the police about it, the police came… and I said I would really like that stop you, and they said that we cannot do so because he has not broken laws.""Provide shelter will not necessarily fix the anti-social behaviour," she says.
What complicates dealing with the issue, she said, is the fact that many of these people speak only Polish, while lack of personnel in the competent bodies speak polonais.Contrairement other people without shelter, says, those needing help in figure are particularly want to enter a system that could put them in a different neighborhood where nobody speaks their langue.Un another problem, what it sees is that the new proposed shelter as an institution sponsored by Government, would anyone without special for residents priority of Polish figure.
"It is not that there is necessarily a prevalence higher alcohol enters Polish culture", she says. ""But the Polish culture as a community deals with people who are alcoholic, my experience and agreements appears to be very different, that it's a horrible to be a member of the family who is an alcoholic stigma and there is not so much understanding of alcoholism as a disease".
Scott Adamo, the 94th cited, said that he understood the concerns raised during the meeting of the résidents.Il Community Council community affairs officer noted that alternative accommodation has already existed in the South of the figure and has not caused any problems for the police.Il warns against making false assumptions. ""Homelessness is not a crime," he said. "It has always been a question without shelter figure.?
Polish community members are also against plan.Thaddeus Cieszynski, a resident of 81 years of installation of DuPont Street main housing, evoked historic Polish resistance to foreign occupation in arguing against the sanctuary in a letter to Mayor Michael Bloomberg, signed by 18 other Polish residents.
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