Word: shelterer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When the doors of Shelter, Inc., a Cambridge overnight emergency Shelter, closed for the night last Tuesday, seven homeless men and women found themselves on the cold side of its doors--victims of the overflow problem in the area's community shelters...
Stanford's month-old shanties were torn down early this week, while members of the student activist group Stanford Out of South Africa took shelter from a rain storm, said senior Lisa L. Lynch, an editor of The Stanford Daily. The pro-divestment group Thursday rebuilt the two-structure shantytown out of cardboard boxes, Lynch said...
...ordinance limits the number of "community residences"--both emergency and longer-term housing--to one per 5000 residents in a given area of Cambridge. In August, the city went so far as to halt the establishment of a shelter in Central Square, because that area of Cambridge, which is home to 13,500 people, already has six residences. In fact, largely because of this law, no new shelters have opened in Cambridge since...
Harvard can and should do more for the homeless, like donating some land and money towards building a new shelter or opening its own shelter under the auspices of one of the social service organizations. The University has an obligation, both institutionally and as a large collection of concerned citizens, to step forward to do what it can to solve a community problem. Harvard's best first step would be to join the fight to repeal this law and help to clear the way for more shelters. Further steps will require more time, study and, above all, a firm committment...
Reagan set no specific guidelines for reform other than to acknowledge government's responsibility to "provide shelter and nourishment for those who cannot provide for themselves." He also ordered his Domestic Policy Council to report by Dec. 1 with "a strategy for immediate action to meet the financial, educational, social and safety concerns of poor families...