Chicago is grappling with local backlash against moving homeless migrants into a new government-run tent encampment as temperatures drop and more migrants continue to arrive.

Hundreds of migrants are still sleeping on floors or in tents outside city police stations. Some who remained this week huddled near tents wearing parkas, knit hats and even ski goggles to cope with the cold weather and falling snow.

At the same time, dozens of protesters have been gathering daily near a construction site where one of two new shelters is being built in Chicago’s Brighton Park neighborhood. The shelters, funded by the state of Illinois and expected to open as soon as mid-December, will house up to 2,200 asylum seekers and cost $65 million to build.

Community members in Brighton Park are suing the city to try to stop construction, saying it violates Chicago zoning laws.

  • ArbitraryValueEnglish
    42·
    1 year ago

    I’m a proud NIMBY. I think YIMBYs are either hypocrites who don’t practice what they preach or fools who are going to end up with a lot of unpleasant neighbors. If they want to jump in front of that bullet then they can go ahead, but generally I see them claiming moral superiority but actually just telling other people what they ought to want in their neighborhood.

    • girlfreddy@lemmy.caOP
      22·
      1 year ago

      You think too small, which is a problem. Just because you don’t live next to a massive pollution-pumping manufacturer doesn’t mean many others don’t.

      Start thinking of your community in relation to all the communities in your city/state/nation/world. Then you may understand what evil NIMBYism really is.