Posted on 05/24/2021 5:43:11 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
DENVER — A plan to help homeless people during the pandemic by letting them set up camp in a church parking lot has forced residents in an affluent neighborhood to question their progressive values and commitment to helping ease social ills.
“When I bought in Park Hill, it wasn't because there was a homeless encampment one block from my front door,” said Jon Kinning, who lives a block away from the church. “If I wanted to live in downtown Denver and near homelessness in my face every day, having people sleep on my patio or go to the bathroom on my garage, I would live downtown.”
About 4 1/2 miles from downtown, Park Hill is full of flowering trees, stately brick homes and cozy bungalows. Black Lives Matter signs adorn front lawns in the largely white neighborhood surrounding the church, and in the 2020 election, about 67 percent of voters in Park Hill cast ballots for Joe Biden.
When members of the church approached the Colorado Village Collaborative about transforming the lot into a safe outdoor space, Adams and many of the 400 people on an informational call were supportive. Two such camps had already opened in December near the state Capitol downtown without any major problems.
Despite the call to action, five Park Hill residents filed a lawsuit earlier this month in Denver District Court to stop the encampment and sought a temporary restraining order to prevent the project from moving forward.
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NIMBY
I hope they build a giant homeless tent city there. Maybe it will wake up the idiot liberal voters.
Awwwww......that’s a shame.
Black Lives Matter signs adorn front lawns in the largely white neighborhood surrounding the church, and in the 2020 election, about 67 percent of voters in Park Hill cast ballots for Joe Biden.
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They thought all that virtue signaling would protect them. They were wrong.
They’ll just move somewhere....vote for the same thing...and then blame a Republican when it happens again.
“about 67 percent of voters in Park Hill cast ballots for Joe Biden.”
Embrace the suck, Park Hill.
L
Yeah, talk is cheap.
Perhaps you will remember this issue when voting, whether local or state.
Voting wrong has consequences, you see.
beat me to it
NIMBY
The Jobama plan to ruin property values and house illegals in your neighborhood because it is not fair that you have worked to have a home in a nice neighborhood. Now people will get drug addicst and their filthy needles laying about.
They best put powerful locks and fencing around their homes.
Drugs cost a lot of money. Money that could be spent on a place to live.
“”” Black Lives Matter signs adorn front lawns in the largely white neighborhood”””
Nothing could be finer than a Virtue Signaling White Leftist who puts BLM signs in their windows and lawns.
I don’t “vote wrong”.
I don’t vote liberal.
I imagine many in this area (of this proposed encampment) do.
Do you??
Not sure what your point is.
Hypocrites - move the homeless into the church and homes of the congregation.
Voting wrong has consequences, you see.
"Yes, we understand that. But the homeless, here? They are filthy and maggot infested and bother our children at the park! Worse, a lot of them are black! We really don't want them around. Kills property values, you know."
If I know liberals, they won't be moving anytime soon. They likely bought the biggest mortgage their income could handle, and the economy and housing market is about to take a dump. Some of them may end up moving into that tent city LOL!
As a former resident of the Denver area, I find it sad what has happened to that once beautiful city.
As many here have said, what is happening is Karma and maybe deserved, but damn, Park Hill was a beautiful part of a beautiful city. But c’est la vie, beauty has no place in their brave new world. Only equality and liberty for all or some such sloganeering as they destroy what came before.
“When I bought in Park Hill, it wasn’t because there was a homeless encampment one block from my front door,” said Jon Kinning, who lives a block away from the church. “If I wanted to live in downtown Denver and near homelessness in my face every day, having people sleep on my patio or go to the bathroom on my garage, I would live downtown.”
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA SNORT
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Uh-huh, compassionate progressives....
I read the post as “you” being used in the general sense to those who voted for Biden in that neighborhood and not being directed at you.
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