AUSTIN (KXAN) — Some neighbors say they’re worried about the city’s plan to relocate a homeless housing navigation center to a new building near Interstate 35 and East Oltorf Street.

“I have an 11-year-old daughter –she’s at Keeling Middle School, and the drop-off on several days a week is just across from the proposed facility,” said Fred Deworken, who lives near the proposed site. “It’s the wrong kind of element to add.”

Deworken and other neighbors wrote to KXAN, saying they are worried the facility will bring an influx of crime to the area and negatively impact nearby schools. William B. Travis High School is a few minutes walk from the proposed location.

“I’m deeply concerned,” Deworken said.

The city announced earlier this summer it would move the controversial homeless resource

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