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Originally Posted by flamesfever
In maintaining and increasing the availability of low income housing, I believe the city should keep the mobile home parks they already have, and consider allowing more. I believe this would allow cheaper housing and living expenses for those struggling to make ends meet.
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The probelm with that idea is that the NIMBY crowd will howl in protest if one placed their neighbourhood. In fact the city is now exploring the low income housing and ways to get around the NIMBY crowd.
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NIMBY poses hurdle for homeless fix: advocate
In a briefing document on the report obtained by the Herald, the committee outlines a housing-first model as a main part of the solution. It also calls for developing more than 11,000 new affordable housing units and reducing the number of emergency shelter beds by half within five years -- an idea Baldwin says should be approached with caution.
"If you wanted to take half the shelters out, look at the people that reside in them, tell me which apartments and which communities are going to put up the same people," he said.
"What we have been trying to do is exactly that for years, and we've been blocked. NIMBY has disallowed many things in this city."
http://www.canada.com/calgaryherald/...3-03d21d0bfb3d