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These are formerly-homeless people's homes. It's not a "shelter" you might traditionally think of, it's a block of apartments that people live in.

It's a social housing project, and probably there is a relatively high proportion of residents with mental health issues, but that does not mean they forfeit their fundamental rights. Or rather, it should not: the exact same slippery slope argument has been used countless times in the past to strip people of their freedom, privacy, autonomy, and to take their children away from them.



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