Word: hostels
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with the problems of street people themselves. This would mean funding more projects like Project Place, Sanctuary, and the Cambrideport Free Medical Center. If merchants don't want kids sleeping on the Common, they have to be prepared to offer an alternative. This would mean setting up an independent hostel, much like a European hostel, where poor transients could sleep. Or it might mean giving money to Sanctuary so that it could expand its already existing sleeping facilities...
Beset by financial problems, the Iroquois is leasing its home at 74 Mt. Auburn St. to Sanctuary, an independent organization committed to helping street people. Funded by the Massachusetts Council of Churches and other organizations, Sanctuary will turn the previously exclusive club into a youth hostel for the summer months. The hostel will open as early as early as Tuesday or Wednesday of next week...
...hostel will staff four full-time workers. They expect to house as many as fifty kids at a time. Each resident will be allowed to stay, free of charge, for up to three days. Two large rooms, one for men and one for women, are already being cleared out to provide sleeping facilities...
...hostel will be open through the entire summer, untli Labor Day. The Iroquois Club is expected to reopen next fall...
...youth hostel is the second major program initiated by Sanctuary this summer. Last Monday they opened a storofront on 9 Mt. Auburn St. which is staffed 24 hours a day and is equipped to give short-term counselling on a wide range of problems. Advice for medical, legal, food, employment, and clothing problems can be obtained by calling...