Word: shelterer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...local charitable organization is drafting a zoning change to allow the opening of one new homeless shelter in Cambridge, just two weeks after the city council refused to approve a broader ordinance allowing new shelters citywide...
Lawyers for Shelter Inc., a Cambridge-based non-profit group which runs shelters in the Boston area, is preparing a new law which would effectively allow the organization to build a shelter in Central Square while limiting all other such facilities...
...Cambridge City Council sub-committee earlier this month vetoed an ordinance change which would have significantly increased the number of shelters allowed in the city. One city official said that the change was initiated in part to permit Shelter Inc.'s planned facility at the old Prospect Congregation Church...
Currently there are only three shelters in Cambridge--clearly not enough space for the Cambridge homeless community. In the basement of the Faith Lutheran Church, a Harvard student-staffed temporary shelter housing 23 guests nightly, sometimes has had to turn away up to a dozen people each night for lack of space. After a hot meal and a cup of coffee, the homeless return to sub-freezing temperatures on the streets...
...recent council meeting, shelter staff and Cambridge residents testified that the homeless community is not a harmful one. As one woman--who advocated a shelter in her East Cambridge neighborhood, near the gourmet food store Bread and Circus--put it, "I've never been harrassed, threatened, or even intimidated by a homeless person, but I have been harrassed, threatened and intimidated by Bread and Circus customers...