How can I stop a drug rehab halfway house in my neighborhood? (vanity post)

[stillonaroll]

If someone wants to put a drug rehab halfway house in my neighborhood, how can I prevent it?

Ideas? Resources? Has someone successfully stopped one of these? If so, how?

This is in a fairly liberal California jurisdiction.

Apparently the project has already received approval at the local level, as the owners have already moved 11 beds into the house, although no junkies have yet moved in. No notice of any kind was given to the adjoining homeowners.

[TightSqueeze]

Ideas?

Earn more money, then move to where the politicians and cops live? I have discovered, living well is always the best revenge.

[EBUCK]

You are going to need to get your community up in arms. Tell your neighbors (even if you don't like them) what is going on. Find out who is funding the house. If it's a business-donation funded house you can use boycott tactics and negative advertising in local tell and sell mags. If it's gubment funded you are going to have to go through the whole process to even get a word with them.

First thing though, get your neighbors pissed and involved.

EBUCK

[general_re]

I used to live about ten houses down from a halfway house like what you're describing....

[Drew68]

although no junkies have yet moved in.

Would you prefer they not get rehabilitated?

[wallcrawlr]

has already received approval at the local level

sounds like youre too late. shoulda voted someone else on the city council

[Khepera]

Supply their clients with drugs and foil their efforts.

[MissMillie]

Oh, I get it... "Clean up your act! But not in my neighborhood!"

[Zeroisanumber]

Nimby

[Sloth]

If someone wants to put a drug rehab halfway house in my neighborhood, how can I prevent it?

Buy all the land in your neighborhood. That's the only honest way to do it.

[wallcrawlr]

sounds like you got a great niche market coming into your area.
start selling

[GovernmentShrinker]

They don't need to get rehabilitated in a nice residential neighborhood. Most of these programs have a low success rate, which makes it perfectly reasonable to keep them confined to commercial/institutional areas. The right to live in a nice normal residential neighborhood should be restored to these people after they have completed a "half-way" program AND are earning enough money to rent or buy a place in the neighborhood on their own -- just like all the other residents of the neighborhood have to do. Rehabilitation is good; special rights for people who screwed up royally are not good.

[general_re]

What special rights? Shouldn't the owners of the house have the right to do with it as they will?

[tracer]

Simply tip off the BATF that there is a cache of automatic weapons inside and that a religious cult lives there. That should do it.........

[A Ruckus of Dogs]

The right to live in a nice normal residential neighborhood should be restored to these people after they have completed a "half-way" program AND are earning enough money to rent or buy a place in the neighborhood on their own

Orphans aren't able to pay rent either. Would you object to an orphanage in your neighborhood?

This sounds like NIMBY problem to me.

[RedWing9]

which makes it perfectly reasonable to keep them confined to commercial/institutional areas.

Yea! Let's put them in the area that can get them in trouble again. Did you ever consider that maybe neighbor's like you are just what some of these people need? Good, healthy, clean living folk who can help them rehab instead of being blind, selfish, NIMBY types?

How about doing society some good and helping to get the goverment out of it?

[Lee Heggy]

You live in the wrong state to have much of a say in anything. Move.