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News from Aady Bales , the CEO of the Union Rescue Mission, one of the largest homeless missions in the country, gives us news that Burbank residents are fighting to get rid of the Winter Shelter at the armory in Burbank.

The residents in that area are using the NIMBY arguments and fear mongering arguments that there are sex offenders and other type criminals roaming the neighborhood.

QUOTE FROM Andy Bales at his facebook page:
Grief in BurbankShare
Today at 4:24pm
I’m saddened that our guests are being generalized as criminals, addicts and sex offenders when the truth is that many are plumbers, carpenters and writers--out of work and homeless for the first time! We have also had 23 families from the Burbank area arrive at the Winter Shelter seeking refuge. Many of these families have recently become unemployed, foreclosed on or evicted. And nearly 50 percent are experiencing homelessness for the first time ever! After the devastating circumstance of losing a home, how painful to also be defaced by the destructive labels of “criminal”, “drug addict” and “sex offender.”

I am hoping and praying that many citizens in Burbank, especially the ones who have volunteered and met their homeless brothers and sisters face-to-face, will speak up to their leaders and come out on Thursday, March 19th to the Burbank Fire Training Center Meeting Room, 1845 N. Ontario Street, Burbank (1 block north of Victory Blvd., above Ralph Foy Park, 6:30 to 9:00 p.m. to speak up for a local solution to the homelessness faced by many in the Burbank area.

For more details on this situation, see the Note on March 6th or go to http://www.urmblog.org/2009/03/06/thanks-from-many-grief-from-a-few/

--Andy B.

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