Word: shelterer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Shelter, Inc.'s Central Square building has 20more places, but accepts only families andrecovering alcoholics referred to them by socialworkers and other shelters...
...forming acommittee to consider possible sources of housing.However, he says one city's efforts cannot solvethe national problem of homelessness. "If you put200 new beds in here today, there's be 400 morepeople here as soon as the word got around," hesaid, adding that no city neighborhood wouldaccept a shelter without protest. "It's likeprisons and dumps--everybody wants them but `notin my backyard,'" he said...
David Whitty, executive director of Shelter,Inc., a program that helps homeless families andrecovering alcoholics, said Healy has implied thatthe homeless do not belong in Cambridge and thatthey fit the stereotype of the willfully dirty andobnoxious bum. "If he had said those things aboutany other group of people there would be outrageand calls for his resignation," Whitty said...
Cambridge's homeless people now compete for 85walk-in shelter beds. Of these, 50 belong to theCambridge and Somerville Program for AlcoholRehabilitation (CASPAR), which accepts onlyinebriated guests...
...University Lutheran Shelter, staffed byHarvard students, provides 23 beds from Novemberto April and a new shelter at First CongregationalChurch on Garden St. provides 12 more...