Concerns about transitional housing for the formerly incarcerated are still a matter of heated contention for local community advocates and organizations and was a topic of discussion at the Flatlands Civic Group, Inc. (FCG) Zoom meeting on November 18th.
Guest speaker Gerard Brewster, President of Utica to Flatbush Initiatives, told civic members that a halfway house was started earlier this year in what was supposed to be a hotel at the Holiday Inn Express located at 5244 Kings Highway.
He said that the hotel is located in a tract of land called the Flatlands/Fairfield Industrial Business Zone, established during Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s time to bring commercial businesses in to revitalize the community.
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Gerard Brewster at a community rally in front of the Holiday Inn Express in July 2021 Concerns about transitional housing for the formerly incarcerated are still a matter of heated contention for local community advocates and organizations and was a topic of discussion at the Flatlands Civic Group, Inc. [...]