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Street people may soon have a crash pad in Cambridge again. Sanctuary, a counseling service for street people, is negotiating with the Iroquis Club to rent space for a hostel where transients can stay without charge...
Problems. The difficulty of combining the functions of both hostel and counseling center in one storefront. Lack of room, too much noise, too much music. Scares away those who aren't sure of what questions to ask, what problems they have. Staffers find it harder to make contact with kids...
Sanctuary, a Cambridge group which provides shelter and counseling for Cambridge street people, must find a new site for its hostel soon...
...organization, founded last Spring, rented the Iroquois Club on Mt. Auburn St. for the summer and used it as a hostel where transients could crash free. The group also opened a storefront at 9 Mt. Auburn St. where it operated a medical, legal, and psychiatric referral service, a drug counseling service, and a telephone switchboard for people seeking help...
Another such meeting is scheduled for Thursday, Nov. 19, when Sanctuary will be asked what progress it has made toward finding a new site for a hostel...