Mattapan residents are not happy with the city’s decision to relocate some of the homeless displaced by the shut-down of the Long Island bridge to two Boston Public Health Commission (BPHC) locations in Mattapan.

The city is currently restoring the BPHC Building N on River Street and BPHC Adult Day Care Mattapan campus to provide between 94 and 124 temporary long-term beds. Building N, with 74 beds, is expected to open this month at the cost of $91,000. It formerly housed the health commission’s food pantry. The adult day care location, expected to offer 20 program beds or 50 emergency beds, will be operational in January 2015, according to the city.

In late October, city officials announced the Mattapan locations were being refurbished to house the displaced homeless. But a meeting on Tuesday night marked the first public meeting on the topic in Mattapan.

“The bottom line is, there is no community process,” said Cassandra Cato Louis, outreach coordinator at the Mattapan Cultural Arts Development. Louis spoke at the hearing on Tuesday night against the proposed plan. “There was a pronouncement of, ‘This is what we’re going to do, this is how we’re going to do it.’”

The city is hosting another community meeting today (Thursday) at the Trotter School on Humboldt Avenue at 6 p.m. Officials say that the selection process was based off of the buildings’ current location, zoning, access to electricity and water, and ability to keep the facility open until the bridge’s three-year construction finishes.

“It’s a chronic situation in Mattapan. We’re the last ones to know what’s happening in our community,” Louis said. “They say it’s a community process and they tell us what is happening. We’re known as being difficult in Mattapan because we never find out until it’s last minute or it’s a done deal. Just tell us it’s a done deal.”

The city of Boston issued a request for proposals for the Long Island bridge in August and has secured $9 million in funding for designing the bridge. Design is expected to last 12 months, according to the city. Construction is expected to cost more than $80 million and could be completed in the span of two and three years, “if expedited given emergency circumstances.”

As the city continues to consider all options, ferry options were floated by the city but were determined to require “significant infrastructure investments, equipment and vehicle purchases, and maintenance and operational costs.”

Louis acknowledged that while it is important to serve the homeless, the area already offers help with a battered women’s shelter and a detox program. With the transitional facilities placed in the heart of Mattapan, “There will be an influx of people who don’t have any connection to the neighborhood,” she said. “They’ll come and piss on it because they think if they were put here, Mattapan is not so good.”

“It’s not lost on us that we’re last on everything and we’re overlooked and overruled,” Louis said.