“Would you want to be the homeowner looking up at a seven-story building in your backyard?” one protester asked.
When Pilar Schiavo got word that a homeless housing project might be going up near her daughter’s school, Chatsworth Park Elementary, she went on the parents’ Facebook page “to ask some questions and get the facts.”
Chatsworth residents protest a planned homeless housing project at a shuttered car lot on Topanga Canyon Boulevard. Schiavo had grilled the project developer and was passing out a fact sheet she composed “because parents just want to know more,” she said. The opposition here is more than a quality of life issue. It’s also a clash of values, rooted in an ethos of self-reliance that dates back to Chatsworth’s pioneer roots. Some residents bristle at what they consider the willful shiftlessness of people living on the streets.
Yet, their San Fernando Valley council district is the only one that hasn’t yet committed to building a single unit. Now she’s part of what she hopes is the true silent majority: churchgoers, do-gooders and everyday people who try to make things easier for people living on the streets.Every month, Huck makes the rounds of homeless encampments in Chatsworth, delivering clothing, food, supplies and spiritual support. On the day of the protest, she showed up to answer questions residents might have.
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