Homeowners in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn are pushing back against a lawsuit they face for preventing developers from accessing property to build a controversial homeless shelter, claiming they were misled about the project’s purpose.
The shelter at 2134 Coyle St., to be built by Westhab, is slated to house 169 homeless families with children. However, residents and local leaders say the rezoned site, approved in 2021, was originally pitched as a building that would include affordable housing.
“We voted for affordable housing and now we’re getting a shelter,” City Councilmember Mercedes Narcisse said. “And now you tell me, believe in you, trust you, that you’re going to get it to be a family shelter. How do I know what you’re going to do?”
“People were tricked”
Assemblyman Michael Novakhov echoed Narcisse’s concerns, saying “people were tricked already and it went from affordable housing to homeless shelter for families. Then it could become a homeless shelter for single men.”…