Introduction
The Gideon Shelter Working Group is working on the Good Neighbor Agreement and other issues related to the Gideon Temporary Alternative Shelter Site in Clinton Triangle at 1490 SE Gideon Street. You may reach the group at gideon shelter at brooklyn-neighborhood dot org.
We are currently meeting twice a week until the Good Neighbor Agreement is complete, sometime around July 2023. You can find the calendar event here.
You can find all our working documents in our google drive share.
The most recent dozen blog posts on the topic
- Gideon Shelter Working Group Update 2023W21by John KarabaicThe Gideon Temporary Alternative Shelter Site / Clinton Triangle working group had five meetings last week, three with HAND and CEIC to work on the Good Neighbor Agreement and two with representatives of Mayor Wheeler, HAND, and CEIC. Here’s the complete list of meeting recordings and notes, caught up from the May 8 update. Apologies for not including links in last week’s update. I’m following a new convention of putting the week number in the title of these updates so they’ll be ordered correctly. We’ve gotten through the first two-thirds of the GNA, including sections on expected response times in…
- Gideon Shelter Working Group Update 2023-05-15by John KarabaicThe Gideon Shelter Working Group had four meetings last week, three with HAND and CEIC to work on the Good Neighbor Agreement and one with representatives of Mayor Wheeler, HAND, and CEIC. I also got a copy of the current site plans via a public records request. I’ve marked them up where I’m confused about conflicts between the site plans and the zoning for the site. To summarize The above all hold without any changes to the zoning code. We’ve asked the city, in particular Hank Smith and Eric Zimmerman, to give us the paper trail on those changes to…
- Gideon Shelter Working Group Updateby John KarabaicCurrent Members of the working group. New members this week in italics. The Gideon Temporary Alternative Shelter Site / Clinton Triangle working group had four meetings last week, two with HAND and two with representatives of Mayor Wheeler, HAND, and CEIC. Dan Carr and I also met with Rep Rob Nosse on Saturday morning, 5/6/2023, to explain where we’re at and ask for his participation in the process. He’s going to be working with us going forward. In my opinion, the most important takeaways from this week are
- Gideon Shelter Working Group Updateby John KarabaicClinton Triangle / Gideon Shelter Temporary Alternative Shelter Working Group Last week was a busy week for the working group. Wednesday, 2023-04-26, was a working meeting as we added notes and worked with Josie Kressner of the Hosford-Abernethy Neighborhood District to include HAND as a participant in our agreement. You can find the current version of the document in our drive folder, along with notes from the meeting. We worked with two other HAND folks on Thursday, 2023-04-27, Chris Eykamp and Michelle Sprague, to narrow down the issues and prepare for a meeting with the city on Friday. Notes and…
- Clinton Triangle / Gideon Temporary Alternative Shelter Site Updateby John KarabaicThis a working document for the April 25, 2023 update The following folks are on the working group. Members who joined in the last week are bolded.
- Clinton Triangle Updateby John KarabaicWe had a productive discussion during our last board meeting about a portfolio of actions that could be taken to move the site from its current location, ensure its safe operation for its residents and their neighbors, monitor its effect on Hosford-Abernathy and Brooklyn, and collaborate on a Good Neighbor Agreement that is coordinated with HAND. The following folks are on the working group. We currently need more representation from unhoused neighbors, folks with experience serving the unhoused, nonprofit staff in our neighborhood, neighborhood business owners and employees, and neighbors who rent or lease. Please contact us, if you’d like…
- Summary of Clinton Triangle Meetingby Elijah NaryThe Brooklyn Action Corps is pleased to welcome a new contributor this week, Eli Nary. Eli will be authoring articles for the BAC website on a variety of topics. In a March 17th Zoom meeting, the Brooklyn Action Corps (B.A.C.) and the Hosford Abernathy Neighborhood District met with Mayor Ted Wheeler’s office and Urban Alchemy about the city’s plan to turn an industrial parcel of land adjacent to Brooklyn into a city-sanctioned campsite. The camp would be located at 1490 S.E. Gideon Street, in what is colloquially known as the Clinton Triangle. It would be the first of its kind…
- Full Video of BAC General Meeting 2023/03/22by John KarabaicPresentations Ethos Development BrookLAND Presentation Trammel Crow US Bank Site Presentation Lloyd Development La Carreta Site Presentation
- Full Video of Clinton Sanctioned Campsite Meetingby John KarabaicWe are following up on the unanswered questions. We’re forming a joint committe with HAND to have a unified front. There are two “community conversations” scheduled for this week, one on March 21, 2023 and one on March 23, 2023. Local, non-paywalled coverage Mayor Wheeler made an appearance in Montavilla, too
- Clinton Triangle Chosen for Sanctioned Campsiteby John KarabaicLast Thursday, March 9, 2023, Mayor Wheeler announced that 1490 SE Gideon Street in the Clinton Triangle would be the first sanctioned campsite in the city. The boards of the Brooklyn Action Corps or Hosford-Abernathy Neighborhood District were not notified prior to this announcement, despite the site’s proximity to our neighborhood and location in HAND. Eric Cress of the Central Eastside Industrial Council gave a statement about CEID’s “90-day reset” at the press conference, even though the CEID does not extend to the sanctioned camping area. The BAC is hosting an online conversation with Mayor Wheeler and Urban Alchemy this…
- Proposed Sanctioned Camping Site at Clinton Triangleby John KarabaicUPDATE 3/13/23: This site has been selected. We are hosting a virtual meeting with Mayor Wheeler and Urban Alchemy on it Friday, March 17, 2023 at 2:30PM. See related post: Clinton Triangle Chosen for Sanctioned Campsite UPDATE 2/17/23: This statement was prepared for the interview in this KOIN-TV segment. We are living through a refugee crisis related to housing costs, the pandemic, and climate change. Compassionate responses to neighborhood challenges in the face of these can be difficult, and some responses can make things worse, turning being poor into a crime. Responding in a way that makes everyone feel safer…
