Category Archives: Announcements

Here is our response to the City Council’s note to Mayor McGinn, here’s what’s going on, and here’s what we have to say about it: We appreciate the council finally recognizing that the illegal encampment known as Nickelsville is not a good model for how our City should be treating our homeless. While we wishContinue reading “HPAC’s response to Council’s Letter to McGinn about Nickelsville”

We know how Mayor McGinn has dealt with Nickelsville and HPAC- we posed the question via email to the Mayoral candidates to see what they would have done, or will do differently. We understand that politicians don’t answer hypothetical questions, oh well- we asked them anyway. Here’s what we asked each of the candidates: IFContinue reading “Questions for our Mayoral Candidates”

Last Friday, we met at the Mayor’s office for a little over an hour with Mayor McGinn, Jerry DeGriek, and Deputy Mayor Smith. We took a team of 5 people. We had one neighbor speak to the Mayor about his experience living right on the greenbelt, we had one woman not involved with HPAC directlyContinue reading “We met with the Mayor…”

We sent a letter to the Mayor and members of the City Council on April 2 requesting a move out date for Nickelsville, it can be found here. We asked that they give us a date by May 13th (today) to give the residents a month’s time to move out by June 13th. To dateContinue reading “No Word from the City about Nickelsville…”