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=== Yes In Your Backyard, but Not In My Backyard hypocrisy by HUCIRP program coordinator ===
In a correspondence with a citizen in December 2020, City of Portland's HUCIRP program coordinator Katie Lindsay(who's also a qualified mental health professional and drug and alcohol counselor<ref>https://www.streetroots.org/news/2019/03/15/portland-spends-millions-responding-homelessness-researchers-find</ref><ref>https://npiregistry.cms.hhs.gov/registry/provider-view/1568852655</ref> summarized that about 90% of complaints made to HUCIRP are speculative.
"Almost 90% of the complaints our program has received regarding these units are related to stigma connected to the homeless population and complaints about things that ‘could happen,’ but have not happened," Lindsay wrote to the citizen. In a response to a citizen's complaint about the toilet placed near the complainant's house, Lindsay replied "Access to water and appropriate toilet options are recognized by the UN General Assembly as a human right" <ref name="toilet"> https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/2020/12/portable-toilets-in-southeast-portland-stolen-vandalized-in-escalating-fight-between-city-and-neighbors.html</ref> They're denigrated to "dealing with transients" when their camps establish too close to Katie Lindsay's(formerly, Katherine Kalpakis<ref name="pitstop"/>) own house.<ref name="katie testimony"/><blockquote>'''''"I've spent a lot of my profession when i worked, umm dealing with
She acknowledged that when she was working at an organization that is the "largest homeless shelter in Portland".(Likely Portland Rescue Mission<ref>https://www.portlandrescuemission.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/Prayer-Calendar-August-2012.pdf</ref>, they would suggest their clients who can not enter the program to go camp at Walmart or the airport.
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