A transitional home used to house felons in a Northwest Spokane neighborhood moved its occupants out after neighbors complained. Those neighbors were outraged when they found out there was a halfway house in their community. The transitional home was two blocks from Westview Elementary school and was within a one-mile radius from two other schools.Good for both sides.
“When people talk, we listen. We always listen, and the last thing we want is to have negative surroundings. We want to be a positive program, that's what we are about,” said the home’s director, Terri Mayer.
“We sat down with the gentlemen in the house and, these are all men that are striving to do well, to not go back to prison, to have a successful life and to set them down and talk about this, we all agreed, this is in everybody's best interest,” said Mayer.
Mayer said four of the men were placed in permanent housing where they would sign a lease and have a landlord. She said the three others were in a safe place...
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