Abstract
Abstract This book began with the statement that growing need for human services has clashed with community response. To explain and illustrate this expanding conflict, I outlined the parameters of homelessness and HIV/ AIDS in the US, and how the perspectives of community attitudes and social relations have been used effectively to define reasons for the longevity of the NIMBY syndrome. I added the dimension of social and spatial stigma to these perspectives to highlight further the deeply embedded nature of community opposition, using case studies to indicate how the NIMBY syndrome is both intractable and fragile in particular circumstances. Included in this discussion were analyses of geographical variation in community and municipal response to homelessness and HIV/AIDS, and the tensions involved in sorting out who is responsible (or, in the case of NIMBY, who is not responsible) for providing care and services to homeless persons and people living with HIV/AIDS.
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