Word: shelterer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...apparent swipe at the presidential campaign of Gov. Michael S. Dukakis, the Boston Herald this week revealed that six temporary shelters for the homeless, including Harvard's University Lutheran Shelter, would close due to a state-level "fund feud...
...Winter Shelter Program buildings--which include the 23-bed Phillips Brooks House project--will do nothing out of the ordinary when they shut down for the warm season this April...
...University Lutheran shelter, which receives $13,000 from the state Department of Public Welfare, normally closes for the summer because most student volunteers leave the city...
Mark Baker, of the 350-bed Pine Street Inn shelter, called the Thursday article "pretty confusing to a lot of people. It was not clear, there were not too many facts, and it was not altogether accurate." Pine Street runs Boston's largest temporary shelter, at Boston University's Commonwealth Armory building...
Harvey Turner, 29, Denise Arrington, 30, and their two children, ages four and two, have come to the shelter seeking refuge from their Philadelphia Street home. With the violence among drug dealers and the frequent police raids on local crack houses, explains Arrington, "we didn't feel safe." During a recent late-night shootout, she says, "one of the bullets ricocheted and came through the bedroom window." According to Kevin Hailey, an autoworker who moved into the C.O.T.S. shelter last week, crack is an omnipresent fact of life in Detroit. "Drugs have taken over," says Hailey. "It has ruined...