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<blockquote data-quote="Blurt" data-source="post: 631730" data-attributes="member: 648">Yeah, property values.I work in such a purpose-built housing development. Before its construction, just over 70% of neighbouring residents polled by the City were adamantly opposed to the project, fearing their property values would take a nosedive. Now, ten years later, and with the neighbourhood crime rate down by a whopping 130% because of this project, the stats are reversed: in a recent poll (2019), just under 25% of neighbouring residents are still resentful of the building's existence.And, yeah, green spaces.With homeless folks housed, the neighbourhood is cleaner, quieter, and much more pkeasant. Fewer people camp in the local parks (much fewer, in fact) and residents of the building participate in a weekly &quot;Good Neighbour Cleanup,&quot; to the delight of neighbouring residents.This approach has been shown to work. Over and over again. It's not rocket science.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Blurt, post: 631730, member: 648"] Yeah, property values. I work in such a purpose-built housing development. Before its construction, just over 70% of neighbouring residents polled by the City were adamantly opposed to the project, fearing their property values would take a nosedive. Now, ten years later, and with the neighbourhood crime rate down by a whopping 130% because of this project, the stats are reversed: in a recent poll (2019), just under 25% of neighbouring residents are still resentful of the building's existence. And, yeah, green spaces. With homeless folks housed, the neighbourhood is cleaner, quieter, and much more pkeasant. Fewer people camp in the local parks (much fewer, in fact) and residents of the building participate in a weekly "Good Neighbour Cleanup," to the delight of neighbouring residents. This approach has been shown to work. Over and over again. It's not rocket science. [/QUOTE]

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