I am dumbfounded. We don’t know how long it has been a mental health center. The day it came to my attention, we shut it down. I don’t understand how somebody didn’t complain.

All the rooms on 21st Avenue have been turned into bedrooms, so there is no common area. A normal house would have a den or living room, but all the rooms at A New Beginning...

They can’t win no matter which way they turn, because the ordinances don’t allow them to do anything in their present location. And if you have the capacity to keep more than six people —...

These people would have been better off living under the bridge.

If Mr. Warren and Mr. Hodge run a facility with six or fewer occupants, they don’t have to have a license. However, they’re in a residential zone. And in that particular zone, to do anything...