Word: shelterer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...City of Cambridge yesterday approved a plan to open a temporary shelter for the homeless in the Massachusetts National Guard Armory on February 15, but the project awaits state approval...
Under the plan approved by the city Executive Office of Human Services, the new shelter--to be located on Concord Ave.--would have twenty beds and would supplement the two existing shelters in Cambridge until a permanent site can be found, organizers said...
...Shelter Inc., a private organization in Cambridge which cares for the homeless, would operate the shelter, said organizer Jim Stewart, who directs the First Church Emergency Shelter on Garden Street...
Although state officials had originally said that the armory would not be available for use as a shelter until mid-March, the Reverend Monica E. Styron, one of the organizers of the potential shelter, said yesterday that she was confident that the state would approve the February 15 opening date...
Because funds have not yet been found to pay for the shelter, Styron said "We really need the backing" of the state human services office in order to secure permanent state funding for the shelter...