Legal Opinion
Spring-Gar Community Civic Ass'n v. Homes for the Homeless, Inc.
New York Supreme Court
Decided May 5, 1987PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Martha K. Zelman, J.
The present case involves the difficult question of housing for the homeless, and one community’s partial opposition thereto.
BACKGROUND
Springfield Gardens is a fine residential community com*691posed basically of one-family homes. Into this community, a nonprofit corporation, Homes for the Homeless, Inc., wants to thrust approximately 715 homeless people.
Springfield Gardens, a community of approximately 3,000 people, is represented in this action by Spring-Gar Community Civic Association, Inc., an association formed in 1968, and by J. Clifford Gadsden,…
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