"Every month, Huck makes the rounds of homeless encampments in Chatsworth, delivering clothing, food, supplies and spiritual support. On the day of the protest, she showed up to answer questions residents might have.
“They told me, ‘We’re worried about how are we going to monitor what they’re doing?’” Huck said, shaking her head at the irony: As if homeowners are the only ones entitled to privacy.
“I understand their side,” she insists. They worry about trash, disorder, falling property values.
But the way she sees it, that’s not much different from what people thought 50 years ago, when her father tried to use his GI Bill to move their family into a suburban neighborhood near Chicago.
“No white family would sell to us,” she recalled. “They thought blacks would bring the neighborhood down. When I see that same resistance here to homeless people, it hurts me personally.”
Still Huck is hopeful, because she’s seen standoffs resolved."
~ S. Banks
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-10-10/homeless-housing-chatsworth-nimby
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