Plans to house homeless at East Side hotel scrapped

After neighbors object, San Antonio scraps plan to house homeless at East Side hotel

that would have housed homeless people after neighbors — worried about crime and questioning why their part of town should be the site for such a facility — opposed the project.

“It’s heartbreaking because these are the kinds of things I talked about on the campaign trail — these are the kind of projects we need,” McKee-Rodriguez said. Neighbors said the city too often uses the East Side as a testing ground for projects they said wouldn’t be considered for the more affluent North Side of San Antonio, said Rose Hill. Hill doesn’t live in Skyline Park, but she leads the District 2 Presidents Roundtable, a group of East Side neighborhood association presidents.

Nearby business owners also were concerned. Janie Agis owns Radicke's Bluebonnet Grill just north of the Garden Inn, and said she’s had problems with homeless people in the area vandalizing her building and scaring customers.

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