The St. Petersburg Times has a thoughtful article on the conflict (reported on earlier in famvin) between the SVDP and the NIMBY (Not In My Back Yard) syndrome.St. Vincent de Paul was stuck between a rock and a hard place. The Roman Catholic charity was trying to help the homeless, but neighbors complained that its clients were not only noisy and scary but that they urinated and defecated on surrounding property.
That battle didn’t take place in December, when the charity took heat for allowing homeless people to set up a tent city on its land. It happened 10 years ago.
One can trace the current unfolding of this issue by typing in the word homelsss in the search box at the upper right of any famvin page.
Tags: Homelessness
