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This is home to the Emergency Service Center an arm of Cambridge and Somerville Alcoholism Rehabilitation (CASPAR) and only shelter in the area willing to provide beds for homeless alcoholics. Last year, the center housed 25,357 people--an average of 55 each night--in its 45 beds...
...Emergency Service Center is the only "wet" shelter in the area taking active alcoholics from Cambridge and Somerville--even those who are visibly intoxicated when entering the center...
Some of the Central Square merchants grumble about the shelter, describing it as a magnet drawing fresh crowds of vagrants to the area. But to hear Win Poor, the shelter's director, tell the story, people's attitudes are--slowly--beginning to change...
Poor says that in the shelter's 11 years, not one major problem has been caused by a visitor to the shelter, pointing to that fact to show that 240 Albany St. is part of the solution, not the problem...
Chief Paolillo says that the magnet effect exists, but that the shelter is the only place the police, who brought 2022 people to the shelter last year, can take area's homeless people...