Word: shelterer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fight against homelessness in Cambridge last week gained approximately $43,000 in city and state funds, but several shelter operators say city officials are not seeking real solutions to the problem...
...addition, Councilor William H. Walshproposed that two empty floors in Cambridge CityHospital be used as shelter for the homeless. Thehospital has at least 30 vacant beds, but Walsh'ssuggestion has found scant support. On Monday, thehospital administration and Commissioner of Healthand Hospitals Melvin H. Chalfen released a reportdescribing "significant barriers" to the plan...
...report also said Cambridge Hospital wouldlose money by hosting a shelter because homelessguests would displace paying patients. It alsowarned that homeless people might contaminateother parts of the hospital with contagiousdiseases like tuberculosis...
Walsh said several doctors at the Cambridgehospital had supported his plan and cited aprecedent in the shelter at Shattuck Hospital inthe Boston suburb of Jamaica Plain...
City Councilor David E. Sullivan criticized theproposal, saying, "opening up an armory or ahospital and just dumping people is not reallyhelping them" because homeless people need morethan shelter to escape permanently from thestreets...