Word: shelterer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...turn away at least seven to 10 people every night," said Mary Kelley, program assistant for Shelter, Inc. "There's no doubt that the system has to change...
Cambridge shelters have the resources to shelter additional individuals. In fact, Shelter, Inc. organizers have raised more than $250,000 to convert the former Congregational Church near Central Square into a transitional housing facility. But the city's zoning laws prohibit the construction of any more "community residence facilities" in that Central Square neighborhood...
...degree of relief, however, may be in sight for the city's homeless and the concerned residents who have been continually frustrated by local zoning laws in their efforts to provide emergency shelter. A proposed amendment to the existing ordinance would remove the restriction on the number of community residence facilities permitted, placing a ceiling instead on the number of shelter beds permitted per 1,000 residents. Allowing 10 beds per 1,000 residents, the amendment would effectively triple the potential number of community service beds in the city...
Melissa A. Frazier '87, who considered opening a shelter in Leverett House with other concerned students following the recent controversy over a short-lived Harvard attempt to keep the homeless off heating grates there, said she doesn't understand the attitude of Central Square residents...
...have trouble seeing why a shelter is bad," Frazier said. "I would prefer having a shelter in my neighborhood than having people wandering around in the street--it would be safer...