Residents raise concerns over proposed site for men's homeless shelter - Washington Daily News

Residents raise concerns over proposed site for men's homeless shelter - Washington Daily News

The Zion Shelter and Kitchen has been located at 114 W. Martin Luther King Drive for over 30 years. Recently, the shelter’s board of directors was gifted a piece of property by Kingdom Distributors at its current location, 418 N. Brown Street, the former site of the old shirt factory. The board’s proposed plan is to build a new 6,500 sq. ft. building, which will provide shelter for up to 20 men and a soup kitchen. The facility would also include…

A committee of the Chicago council approved allocating $15 million from TIF taxes for the creation of a homeless shelter in La Villita. The announcement has generated controversy among residents. Critics of the project are because the $15 million would come out of TIF taxes, which are generally used to make improvements in the city, and also because the hostel would be for men only. The hostel would be located on 2500 block west of 21st Street. …