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Another shelter project that has bumped into various city health and zoning laws is a temporary community residence founded by Stewart Guernsey, a first-year Divinity student, in the basement of the University Lutheran Church on Winthrop...
...community residence opened near four River Houses without the several permits Cambridge requires. City Manager Robert W. Healy decided to postpone any action against Guernsey's project for 60 days--the length of the operation's lease with the church...
...examples of Shelter and Guernsey's temporary residence are indicative of the complicated response given by government to the problem of homelessness. Some money is available, but not enough to fund complete programs. Promises of assistance are made, but the results are less tangible. Often, existing regulations limit the way church and community groups can address the issue...
Along with his concern for the homeless, Guernsey also has a strong religious motivation. "The whole thrust of what I'm doing, not only here, is that doing it for your neighbor is doing it for God," Guernsey says...
Ralph M. Long, Jr. who sleeps at the shelter and also helps out by working with the staff members, explains Guernsey's special role this way: "Stewart is taking on something that I wouldn't take on. You take some guy doing this for 20 people, 20 different people from one night to the next, that takes something that not every man has--it takes a lot of heart. For that much respect he gives me, I give him all I can. If Stewart tells me there's a problem, I'd spend my time to fix it because...