Posted on 05/24/2021 10:25:46 AM PDT by grundle
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.
Advocates said unsheltered people were being left behind in Covid-19 mitigation efforts, so they devised a plan to provide safe outdoor spaces where homeless people could access meals, medical care and other services.
But when Pastor Nathan Adams of Park Hill United Methodist Church announced on Easter Sunday that it would put faith into action and create a camp on site for about 40 unsheltered people for six months, many residents in the community were unsettled.
“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.
“It's a neighborhood where kids are used to being pretty free,” said Stephen Booth-Nadav, who has lived across the street from the church for 20 years. “In the summer, kids are out playing in the street, playing in the parking lot, up and down the sidewalks, playing with their dogs.”
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I am heartened when people bear the responsibility for their actions.
Effing NIMBY hypocrites. We have them by the bushel here in Los Gatos, CA, home of the 1% and many BLM signs
Showing America real video of west coast cities destroyed by drugs and homelessness is the only way to keep this from going coast to coast.
It was bad when I lived in Portland in 2012 but nothing compared to what it is now.
If you voted for it you should have the pleasure of having at least 4 tents in your yard
Fat chance. They are like the Jews who vote for the Rats who want to destroy Israel.
“I love blacks and gays and latinos,
Just as long as they don’t move next door...
Oh love me, love me, love me, I’m a liberal”
If you lie with dogs, you wake up with fleas.
There is no utopia.
This pastor is receiving federal tax dollars for setting up these tents. Look for other churches to follow. Always follow the money.
They better get the pooper scooper ready!
NIMBYs are such HYPOCRITES!!
“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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Typical democrat hypocrites...
For breakfast this morning I think I’ll have a double helping of schadenfreude.
Just living proof that modern liberalism denies human nature. Eventually, human nature, which is more conservative, will out.
virtue signaling exempts them
I think they should be forced to have a close-up view of the consequences of their progressive policies.
i am ok with this.
really OK
lets hope at least a few of them connect the dots.
alas...they are brainless libs, so, likely not.
but, at any rate....suck it, libs
Not for long!
They don't want to actually mix in with or rub elbows with the real thing.
As the saying goes, liberals are only liberals until they get mugged. Then they become conservatives.
The Cult of the Hypocritical Phonies.
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