Respect for good neighbors

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Posted by Nancy Oates on June 11, 2012

http://chapelhillwatch.com/2012/06/11/respect-for-good-neighbors/

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  1. Road Warrior

     /  June 11, 2012

    This process is a sham. Also, the idea that you can have addicts dropping into a recovery center 200+ nights a year is stupid.

    The IFC is over-reaching. The Emergency Shelter cannot be a component of a successful transitional shelter. All the wishing in the world doesn’t matter. A Transitional Shelter would work very well on the site, but only if it isolates the people who want help from those who just want to live to drink another day.

    The proof of this head in the sand approach by the IFC is that it didn’t even have an AA meeting until a year or so ago.

    So the IFC will be a terrible neighbor and this shelter will be a failure for the people it could help, because the IFC wants a building more than to assist those inside it.

  2. DOM

     /  June 11, 2012

    I have to agree with Road Warrior. The two just don’t mix – period. That it now seems to be a done deal doesn’t change anything – using the facility as a shelter is unfair to the facility’s more permanent residents.

    Anyone who has any real experience in this field would agree.