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by jisaacstone 4454 days ago
"The neighbors in the community, I think, wanted to be reasonable, but they didn't feel safe having their kids go to the center"

Making laws to make the neighbors feel safer! Fantastic! "Don't be poor around me, I don't feel safe."

This is one of the worst forms of NIMBYism. And treating the disadvantaged as dangerous is a form of prejudice. How unfortunate that people only seem to care about racial prejudice.