Local community group wants more transparency from those operating the shelter.
Locals demand involving the community before the decision is final.
“After the housing crash, back in 2008, they didn’t have jobs… And their families, they threw them out.”
Officials met with community members at Varet Street’s Green Fitness Studio to discuss plans for the 140 bed shelter slated to open next month.
A former rehab facility on Bushwick’s DeKalb Ave is about to reopen as a 100-bed homeless shelter
Tonight at 5:30PM, The Doe Fund is hosting a town hall meeting to answer community’s questions regarding city’s decision to place 50 sex offenders in their East Williamsburg/Bushwick facility at 89 Porter Ave
