Democrats In NY Town Block Christian Shelter From Welcoming More Homeless |
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Democrats In NY Town Block Christian Shelter From Welcoming More Homeless
The Capital City Rescue Mission is suing the city in federal court for blocking its First Amendment right to build an addition to accommodate an overflow of homeless people.
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Just a short walk from New York State’s capitol and the Empire State Plaza are the bleak streets of Albany’s South End. But out of the squalor, on the upper brick wall on a corner of South Pearl Street, shines a white cross with two intersecting words on it in red neon letters: JESUS SAVES.
The landmark sign welcomes tired, hungry, drug-and-alcohol-ravaged souls to the Capital City Rescue Mission, which houses more than 300 homeless people a night, according to Perry Jones, who has been the mission’s executive director for 44 years. But many have to sleep on mats on the floor, which is why the Christian shelter is seeking to build a $6 million four-story addition on land it owns.
But the city planning board, after nearly five years and several contentious public meetings, declined to even vote on the project, claiming the mission’s 420-page draft environmental impact statement (DEIS) is “incomplete and inadequate.” The mission repeatedly addressed a long list of supposed deficiencies in the DEIS, only to have the board continue to claim that the hefty document was lacking. The city’s claim also apparently contradicted regulations of the state Department of Environmental Conservation that the DEIS should not be “encyclopedic” and should address only effects that can be “reasonably anticipated.”
The cynical strategy behind the city’s stonewalling seems obvious: to force the mission into a complex, costly legal battle or scrap the project.
So in January 2025 the mission sued the city of Albany in federal........