{"id":246781,"date":"2013-03-20T02:49:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-20T07:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=246781"},"modified":"2013-03-20T11:59:34","modified_gmt":"2013-03-20T16:59:34","slug":"conflict-arises-over-gateway-to-hope-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=246781","title":{"rendered":"Conflict Arises over Gateway to Hope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2013\/03\/gateway_to_hope_pic.1363664015.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2013\/03\/gateway_to_hope_pic.1363664015-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"gateway_to_hope_pic.1363664015\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-246571\" \/><\/a>TYLER \u2014 Gateway to Hope is a homeless center in Tyler whose founders say it\u2019s been helping people since last September. But KETK reports some neighbors are not impressed by the center\u2019s good works. And recently, the city\u2019s Planning and Zoning Commission extended the facility\u2019s permit for just a year, not the five years requested by the center. <\/p>\n<p>Gateway to Hope is a labor of love for its overseer, Pat Mallory: a facility designed around not just helping the homeless for a day, but striving to help them for the rest of their lives. Mallory says since September, more than 100 people have found jobs, which is why she says the ruling came as a shock. She continues, \u201cWe were totally surprised, we have heard nothing but praise from everyone who\u2019s come in from the city, from the policemen that come here.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>But according to the restaurant across the street and neighbors who live next door, the center has only brought unwanted homeless traffic. They say once the center closes at 4 p.m., many of the homeless people stay around and bother residences and businesses. But Mallory says as long as the doors stay open, the center will continue to apply for the permit every year \u2014 and, she says, keep turning Tyler homeless into Tyler taxpayers. \u201cWe\u2019re just hoping we can just continue to do what we do, not just for the homeless, but for the city of Tyler,\u201d says Mallory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER \u2014 Gateway to Hope is a homeless center in Tyler whose founders say it\u2019s been helping people since last September. But KETK reports some neighbors are not impressed by the center\u2019s good works. And recently, the city\u2019s Planning and Zoning Commission extended the facility\u2019s permit for just a year, not the five years requested &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=246781\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Conflict Arises over Gateway to Hope<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-246781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-06 02:28:32","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=246781"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":246890,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246781\/revisions\/246890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=246781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=246781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=246781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}