Word: shelterer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...controversial decision last night at City Hall, a Cambridge shelter for the homeless was denied permission to locate a new facility in a vacant Central Square church...
After local residents intensely lobbied for several months against the proposed shelter, the city's board of zoning appeals voted 3-2 against Shelter Inc.'s request to purchase and renovate the Prospect St. Congregational Church...
...support of their "no-more-shelters" stand, these Cantabrigians dug up a nine-year old local statute which limits the number of "community lodgings and personal care lodging houses" to one for every 5000 residents in a neighborhood. Enacted long before Reaganomics exacerbated the plight of the homeless. Ordinance 868 was designed to spread mental hospitals and temporary care facilities evenly throughout the city. But since the regulation became law, not one new shelter has opened anywhere in the city...
Without a doubt, man Cantabrigians will be watching city officials closely in the next few weeks to gauge their reaction to the Shelter Inc, dilemma. Our elected leaders have reached a crossroads in dealing with the city's homeless population: they can follow the example of Quincy's vigilantes and Beverly's uncaring citizens, or they can lead the way down the road of enlightened benevolence and grant Shelter Inc. permission to continue its life-saving work...
Cambridge, Mass, August 8, 1985. In contrast to how neighboring communities deal with homelessness, a local board overturned some prejudicial rules and opened the first new community lodging in the city since 1976. And the shelter was no longer homeless...