Alot of the comments I have read, none of them never said about making it into a hospital for covid-19 patients, so they can recover.
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Rickey Gonzales
5 years ago
I'm against the homeless shelter at Gibson Medical Center! The hospital should be used as an covid-19 patients so they can recover from the virus. Because all the local hospitals are over capacity!
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Jesse Opdyke
5 years ago
Sell the old hospital to the film industry! This area has gone down enough...
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MaryAnn Miley
5 years ago
It is hard enough having the homeless that do wander around here. My grandchildren cannot go to the parks because the homeless have gathered there and leave bodily refuse and garbage behind. Or they get aggressive with us when we do not give them money. They have been sleeping on our porches and in our backyards!! So NO!!! Do not convert a much needed hospital to a shelter that will only encourage the undesirables to continue to hang around our neighborhoods and the intersections. It is hard enough to go to the area businesses without homeless coming after us for money!!
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Charisse Opdyke
5 years ago
Leave it as hospital. We have enough homeless shelters that people already don’t utilize.
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David Adviento Mackey
5 years ago
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This is a short sighted band aid without impact studies, surveys and consideration of tax payers. It will decrease property values while continuing poor services for this area. I’m in favor of legal recourse should the mayor or city counselor refuse to offer due process for this facility.
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Anonymous
5 years ago
I am tired of our neighborhood being a dumping ground for the city's problems.
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Julie A Hogan
6 years ago
I am against the 300 bed mega-shelter being placed at Gibson Medical Center. 20+ years ago our 2 daughters attended Wilson MS, daughters attended Wilson Middle School, summers life guarded at Wilson pool. It was safe. There were not homeless people dropping needles, and living at Wilson park. There are now. Because the Gateway facility will not house clients, there will be 300 more people released to neighborhoods. When Tiny Homes are build near EVERY city councilor's nearby schools and parks, then the SE Heights neighborhoods will join the Gateway conversation. Spread the
homeless population to all, not us.
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Lisa Trujillo
6 years ago
Having the gateway homeless shelter in the old Lovelace hospital is the last thing this neighborhood needs. We are already plagued by crime, the highest percentage of registered sex offenders in the city, and vacant business properties and we absolutely do not need a homeless shelter to add to negative perception of this area. The city has not come through on the police substation that we were supposed to get on the corner of Kathryn and San Mateo several years ago and would be a plus for our area but it has the money to put a homeless shelter here to further mar our community. The city of Albuquerque needs to try and help this area improve instead of dumping a homeless shelter that no other area of the city wants in our neighborhood. There are homeless people in several areas of Albuquerque so make several small homeless shelters all around town instead of one large shelter. I think most of the neighborhoods fighting the homeless shelter would not fight a small shelter in their community.
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paul martin
6 years ago
Yet another case of ill-considered foolery.
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Dolores Martin
6 years ago
ABQ Health Care workers continue to advise building a variety of smaller shelters in a variety of neighborhoods because institutional housing does not support the health care or the well-being of the people who (the politicians say) they're trying to help. A 300-bed mega-shelter is an outdated, unacceptable proposal.
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Myles Padilla
6 years ago
Think of a better idea.
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Eliza Martin
6 years ago
Please listen to the many experts who say that mega shelters place a burden on surrounding neighborhoods and fail to serve the intended population. Say no to a Gateway Center in District 6.
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Sally Peters
6 years ago
Our community has been hit hard recently with the negative impact of the ART project and yet we are really the heart of Albuquerque. The homeless population does need help and shelter, but this burden should be shared with all areas of the city.
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Ross B Perkal
6 years ago
None of us oppose the City's need to deal with the homeless population in a safe, caring, humane manner, we are all for that. I have lived in Nob Hill for 44 years and the past five years have been spent on burglar alarms, metal gates instead of wooden, metal covers on every door and window, ring doorbells and flood lites, etc. The City lies to its citizens about the real number of APD personnel, there are hundreds LESS than we are told. It is not fair to the homeless citizens for the City to put them in a ghetto and "hide them from sight." The crime rate between Broadway and San Pedro and Gibson and Central is the highest of any City in the Southwest. Pat Davis, stop this latest bad idea, and protect your District, this will not work and will further doom the SE quadrant, whose crime rate is already a disaster, and not likely to get better, if the City compounds its prior mistakes.
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Charles Bennett
6 years ago
The cost of asbestos remediation that would be required to repurpose the old Lovelace Hospital on Gibson would be far greater than the projected cost predicted by the City but there is a far greater cost that should be considered.
Walling off ABQ’s homeless into a location not dissimilar to a minimum security prison places this population out of sight and out of mind of a City that has intentionally marginalized that location and the homeless, again.
The continued irresponsible use by City administrations of working class neighborhoods as minimum security prisons over the past five decades has cost and will continue to cost all of ABQ many millions of dollars, its reputation as a business investment and its bond rating (which is currently only AA). The AA or lower bond rating locks in a higher rate for all of us to pay back and thus decreases our ability to reinvest in our City's infrastructure and amenities, creating an ever increasing spiral hopelessness that will effect the entire metro and become a burden to the state. Sadly, those of us who have invested time and money into this City's working class neighborhoods have found that our only protection from this City's administrations (past and present) institutional marginalization and disenfranchisement may be to encourage those costs to the greater community until a City administration cries "uncle" and reverses its course to accept a far more responsible and sustainable metropolitan model.
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Harold J Newman
6 years ago
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Perhaps use Lovelace Gibson as one of several locations spread throughout the city, each designed for specific homeless cohorts. Perhaps use LG for more than one cohort, but not all cohorts, with internal separation between them. It's a big building.
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William Sprague
6 years ago
Spread em out!
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Robert Lacy
6 years ago
Albuquerque homeowner, 87108
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Anonymous
6 years ago
In Parkland Hills we are already on the edge of the crime zone. This facility will only increase the crime into our neighborhood. Please don’t put the facility at this location.
Alot of the comments I have read, none of them never said about making it into a hospital for covid-19 patients, so they can recover.
I'm against the homeless shelter at Gibson Medical Center! The hospital should be used as an covid-19 patients so they can recover from the virus. Because all the local hospitals are over capacity!
Sell the old hospital to the film industry! This area has gone down enough...
It is hard enough having the homeless that do wander around here. My grandchildren cannot go to the parks because the homeless have gathered there and leave bodily refuse and garbage behind. Or they get aggressive with us when we do not give them money. They have been sleeping on our porches and in our backyards!! So NO!!! Do not convert a much needed hospital to a shelter that will only encourage the undesirables to continue to hang around our neighborhoods and the intersections. It is hard enough to go to the area businesses without homeless coming after us for money!!
Leave it as hospital. We have enough homeless shelters that people already don’t utilize.
This is a short sighted band aid without impact studies, surveys and consideration of tax payers. It will decrease property values while continuing poor services for this area. I’m in favor of legal recourse should the mayor or city counselor refuse to offer due process for this facility.
I am tired of our neighborhood being a dumping ground for the city's problems.
I am against the 300 bed mega-shelter being placed at Gibson Medical Center. 20+ years ago our 2 daughters attended Wilson MS, daughters attended Wilson Middle School, summers life guarded at Wilson pool. It was safe. There were not homeless people dropping needles, and living at Wilson park. There are now. Because the Gateway facility will not house clients, there will be 300 more people released to neighborhoods. When Tiny Homes are build near EVERY city councilor's nearby schools and parks, then the SE Heights neighborhoods will join the Gateway conversation. Spread the homeless population to all, not us.
Having the gateway homeless shelter in the old Lovelace hospital is the last thing this neighborhood needs. We are already plagued by crime, the highest percentage of registered sex offenders in the city, and vacant business properties and we absolutely do not need a homeless shelter to add to negative perception of this area. The city has not come through on the police substation that we were supposed to get on the corner of Kathryn and San Mateo several years ago and would be a plus for our area but it has the money to put a homeless shelter here to further mar our community. The city of Albuquerque needs to try and help this area improve instead of dumping a homeless shelter that no other area of the city wants in our neighborhood. There are homeless people in several areas of Albuquerque so make several small homeless shelters all around town instead of one large shelter. I think most of the neighborhoods fighting the homeless shelter would not fight a small shelter in their community.
Yet another case of ill-considered foolery.
ABQ Health Care workers continue to advise building a variety of smaller shelters in a variety of neighborhoods because institutional housing does not support the health care or the well-being of the people who (the politicians say) they're trying to help. A 300-bed mega-shelter is an outdated, unacceptable proposal.
Think of a better idea.
Please listen to the many experts who say that mega shelters place a burden on surrounding neighborhoods and fail to serve the intended population. Say no to a Gateway Center in District 6.
Our community has been hit hard recently with the negative impact of the ART project and yet we are really the heart of Albuquerque. The homeless population does need help and shelter, but this burden should be shared with all areas of the city.
None of us oppose the City's need to deal with the homeless population in a safe, caring, humane manner, we are all for that. I have lived in Nob Hill for 44 years and the past five years have been spent on burglar alarms, metal gates instead of wooden, metal covers on every door and window, ring doorbells and flood lites, etc. The City lies to its citizens about the real number of APD personnel, there are hundreds LESS than we are told. It is not fair to the homeless citizens for the City to put them in a ghetto and "hide them from sight." The crime rate between Broadway and San Pedro and Gibson and Central is the highest of any City in the Southwest. Pat Davis, stop this latest bad idea, and protect your District, this will not work and will further doom the SE quadrant, whose crime rate is already a disaster, and not likely to get better, if the City compounds its prior mistakes.
The cost of asbestos remediation that would be required to repurpose the old Lovelace Hospital on Gibson would be far greater than the projected cost predicted by the City but there is a far greater cost that should be considered. Walling off ABQ’s homeless into a location not dissimilar to a minimum security prison places this population out of sight and out of mind of a City that has intentionally marginalized that location and the homeless, again. The continued irresponsible use by City administrations of working class neighborhoods as minimum security prisons over the past five decades has cost and will continue to cost all of ABQ many millions of dollars, its reputation as a business investment and its bond rating (which is currently only AA). The AA or lower bond rating locks in a higher rate for all of us to pay back and thus decreases our ability to reinvest in our City's infrastructure and amenities, creating an ever increasing spiral hopelessness that will effect the entire metro and become a burden to the state. Sadly, those of us who have invested time and money into this City's working class neighborhoods have found that our only protection from this City's administrations (past and present) institutional marginalization and disenfranchisement may be to encourage those costs to the greater community until a City administration cries "uncle" and reverses its course to accept a far more responsible and sustainable metropolitan model.
Perhaps use Lovelace Gibson as one of several locations spread throughout the city, each designed for specific homeless cohorts. Perhaps use LG for more than one cohort, but not all cohorts, with internal separation between them. It's a big building.
Spread em out!
Albuquerque homeowner, 87108
In Parkland Hills we are already on the edge of the crime zone. This facility will only increase the crime into our neighborhood. Please don’t put the facility at this location.