Resistance to Mayor Michelle Wu’s push for a new shelter space shows no sign of slowing down, with politicians vowing opposition and rallying under the banner of “Mass and Albany.”

That seems to be the branding opponents are trying to stick the proposed overnight shelter with, reserving a website domain that lays out their concerns and predicts that the ‘safe sleeping area’ will become both a permanent shelter and a new hub for the illicit drug trade.

Massandalbany.com went live in early September, making good on threats from South End civic groups and political representatives that they would fight tooth and nail against any new services being housed near the encampment on Atkinson Street.

The proposal for a new overnight center at the Miranda Creamer Building near Mass and Cass was prompted by Wu’s proposed ordinance to clear Atkinson Street of tents, which officials say would kick to the curb around 30 people well into the housing process but still not finished.

Officials have also floated the possibility of housing other city services at the Creamer Building, alongside the city’s clean needle program and medical care via Boston Health Care for the Homeless. A clinical program from Boston Medical Center (BMC) was run out of the Roundhouse until funding dried up, and with new facilities opening at its doorstep it wouldn’t be a stretch for BMC to restart them next to the shelter.

Unfortunately, the Wu administration has little public trust left to call on in the South End. The language being employed that the Miranda Creamer space would be a temporary, emergency housing measure with winter bearing down is almost verbatim what was used to set up the Roundhouse, which went on for years and spawned thousands of complaints from residents and businesses.

“We’ve got about a decade’s worth of claims under multiple mayors that whatever they were putting here would be temporary,” said Steve Fox, head of the South End Forum. “You can count on the people of Newmarket, the South End and Roxbury to be beyond skeptical. The Roundhouse wasn’t supposed to have any backfill, and not only did it not close after the emergency, but they extended the lease for years.”

Opponents point out that the engagement center on Atkinson Street is sitting empty after a surge of violence at the encampment. While health workers have stressed that it’s a temporary closure, stakeholders have pointed to it as the perfect spot if the city needs a new shelter, given that the street will soon have an even heavier police presence.

If the shelter truly is meant to be temporary while these 30 people find housing, it shouldn’t be an issue that the engagement center eventually plans to resume normal operations.

Fox says talk of new services and a shelter at the Miranda Creamer already has people congregating, even without the tents on Atkinson Street cleared.

“We’ve already seen migrations of people who heard the city wants to open a new facility there,” said Fox. “Even before the plan is fully debated or the ordinance considered by the council, the police are already having to move migrations of people out from under the BMC bridge. We already know what this new facility will create.”

City spokespersons declined to directly address the claims laid out by those opposing the new space. When asked specifically about how dedicated mayor Wu is to keeping the tent clearing tied to the opening of the new sleeping space, officials were noncommittal.

“The camp removal ordinance is tied to those people having somewhere to go and a place to store their belongings,” said the mayor’s office in a statement. “The Miranda Creamer building would provide some additional capacity, but that space specifically is not in the language of the ordinance.”

If necessary, the city could employ the ordinance without the Miranda Creamer space by finding beds in the existing network for people. Given the opposition from stakeholders and the lack of a backup plan if the broader proposal can’t negotiate a skeptical city council, this new shelter space’s future is far from guaranteed.