Some neighbors in Long Beach want the city to stop plans for a homeless shelter at their community gym, but the city says it is moving forward.
Residents held a protest last weekend and they say they will do it again if the gym opens as a shelter in March. The city has already fenced off the area and is planning to start sheltering in a matter of days.
Kalisha Jackson is among a growing group of neighbors trying to get the City of Long Beach to move the temporary shelter out of their westside neighborhood and Silverado Park. “We are not against to the homeless being housed,” Jackson said. “We have an opposition to the homeless being housed in a public park.”Sign up for NBC LA newsletters.
Angela Gómez, a resident of the area for 35 years, is also opposed to the gym becoming a shelter. She remembers when the gym was last used as a homeless shelter during the COVID pandemic. “When we would bring our children to the park, one of them would get completely nude at the drinking fountain right there,” Gómez said about an unhoused person.
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