HUPEG shouldn't have said anything. Now they look like the bad guys. Everyone knows they'll move of their own volition, similar to the Philpott church. If they said nothing, they could have looked like goo guys. Hell, donate a bit to the salvation army and get on everyone's good side. Eventually the pressure to move will be too high. Both from a land value perspective, and because mixed use developments will have commercial tenants and residents that complain until they move the shelter. Let them exist until they want to move.
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