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It's a free country
...not a socialist or communal one. You don't get the "right" to pick your neighbors, believe it or not- and you don't get the "right" to twist the arm of the state into doing it for you.
Can you imagine the day where you have to seek the approval of your neighbors to sell your house to someone, a la apartment new-roommate-interview style?
I can't stand people like this:
The people who live on that street feel very strongly about three townhouses being renovated for transitional housing for the homeless, it just seems a little much," said Linehan. "I think the folks that live on Upton Street want their street as good as it can be. They don’t see that sort of housing as a detriment, but it’s probably the amount, how much of that housing is really the issue."
Too effin' bad! Want to control who lives next to you? Live in a gated private community, run your own sewer/water, pave/plow your own roads, dispose of your own garbage, and put out your own fires. Anyone who pays taxes and respects the law has as much right to live in 1 Snootyville Lane as you do to live in 3 Snootyville Lane.
When are people going to learn to mind their own P's and Q's when it comes to living in the city? And that you don't have the "right" to say much about anything beyond your property line?
I'll be honest here
I dont have enough time to read that whole thing but if I am right it seems they want to put the new Pine St Inn on this street. I wouldnt want the Pine Street Inn on my street.Sorry. There are some scary characters hanging around outside the current PSI and its 24/7. Lots of these guys are drug users, alcholics and worse. Many of the level 3 sex offenders are listed as homeless.There is no easy answer.
You should have read the article before commenting
Because that's exactly what they're NOT planning on doing.
Then read the whole article
The property was formerly a short-stay residence for troubled people.
Pine Street Inn wants to make it a transitional longer-stay residence for select persons in the process of becoming "homed".
Personally? I think that is an improvement. What these people want is an obliteration.
It is like the jerks in North Cambridge insisting that a multi-acre parcel walking distance from the T in a neighborhood averaging over 30 units per acre be allowed to have no more than three houses built on it with a minimum of 2,500 sq ft each.
my bad
I just read it. Sorry.I'll still be honest and say I would be concerned if all of a sudden they planned to do this in my neighborhood.I am relieved that there will be screenings to keep ths kids safe.
three minutes! you guys are ruthless!
But good on ya!
Nice work, bostnkid.
better move, then.
I'll still be honest and say I would be concerned if all of a sudden they planned to do this in my neighborhood.
Then I guess you'd have to move, if it was that important to you, since people have a "right" to live where they choose.
I am relieved that there will be screenings to keep ths kids safe.
Repeat after me: child abuse, kidnappings, et al is predominantly committed by CLOSE FAMILY AND FRIENDS, not On The Road To Recovery Semi-Homeless Joe.
oh
ok brett, i am going to move.i suggest you calm down.
WHOLE LOT OF UPROAR ON ONE TINY STREET
COME ON IS THIS FREE AMERICA ..OH NO WE STILL HAVEN'T CHANGED ARE WE STILL IN JIM CROW DAYS. SOUTH END IS NOT WORRIED ABOUT PINE STREET INN PEOPLE..THEY ARE WORRIED THAT THE PEOPLE WILL BE BLACK THAT MOVE IN..........AM I WRONG NO I DO NOT THINK THAT I AM SOUTH ENDERS WHO SWEAR THEY ARE THE BOOSIEST OF ALL PEOPLE ARE TOTALLY RACIST THATS NO SECRET. I KNEW THE SOUTH END SINCE BACK IN THE 50'S WHEN ALL PEOPLE LIVED AND GOT ALONG.NOW BECAUSE OF THE OVERPRICED CONDO'S THEY'VE BUILT HERE MAKES NO DIFFERENCE ITS NOT THEIR PRIVATE WORLD WE BLACK PEOPLE ARE IN IT EVERYDAY TO WORK EAT AND DRINK AND I KNOW THEY HATE IT.LIKE SOMEONE SAID BUY A HOUSE AND PUT A DAM GATE AROUND IT.
Not in my neighborhood
If someone who can't find the caps lock key wanted to move in next door to me, that's where I'd draw the line.
Click-thru
That long-winded story is the reason why the term "click-thru" was coined. I admire all of you who took the time to read it all. I never got past the first paragraph.
It's embarrassing. This is
It's embarrassing.
This is not the South End I moved to 20 years ago. I would much rather live next to this transitional housing than that Columbus Center monstrosity.
The Most Damning Point...
is that Pine Street would be lowering the number of units from what Hope previously had.
Indeed
Yes, both lowering the number of residents and putting in folks who have ALREADY BEEN THROUGH the kind of rehab the present tenants are going through on the premises.
I'd rather have such neighbors than the crowds of party-mad college kids I've currently got - in fact, there's already a house full of SRO housing for rehabbed mentally ill, etc. about two blocks away, and they've been completely innocuous neighbors for over a decade. (I worry more about the stress that the party crowds put on them than about their potential threat to the neighborhood!) Plus the house that was renovated for that project had been a run-down blight on the neighborhood for years before.