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An uproar over a homeless shelter in West Roxbury - The Boston Globe

The controversy is another classic NIMBY drama. But it’s also about expectations, and the way that “the process” becomes an end in itself.
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A state contractor plans to turn a long-vacant nursing home at 5 Redlands Road, near the intersection with Centre Street, into a shelter for dozens of families.
There’s a good reason the neighbors might have filed into Emmanuel Episcopal Church expecting to offer input on the shelter plan, and maybe even to sink the project. After all, there’s seemingly a community-review process for everything in Boston: If a landowner wants to build a school or an apartment building, abutters have to be notified and invited to comment. That’s led to a culture of reflexive NIMBYism and maybe even a sense of entitlement — as if it’s just the natural order of things for the neighborhood to have a veto over other people’s property.
But you could almost see the realization set in at Emmanuel Episcopal Church Tuesday that officials from the shelter operator, Making Opportunity Count, weren’t there to ask permission. They were there to tell the neighborhood about a plan that, in this case, neighbors would be powerless to stop.
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400 Belgrade steel going up:
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The Porter Square building is going to be a hotel.

This one isn’t being built by Young Construction, so it should be completed before the heat death of the sun.
 
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