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Poor, his colleagues and the city all say the time has come for the shelter, the only "wet" one in Cambridge, to find a new home. And the shelter, run by the Cambridge and Somerville Program for Drug Abuse and Rehabilitation (CASPAR), has already set its sights on a property in the heart of Central Square...
...neighborhood residents have organized to oppose the move. They say the economic health of the square, already the home of 31 social services, might collapse under weight of hosting the shelter...
Unlike halfway houses or other kinds of shelters, clients at the proposed shelter do not have to enter a treatment program to stay the night. If the clients do not choose to enter a voluntary detoxification program, they return to the streets the next morning...
...shelter] will bring drugs, cocaine into the neighborhood. We sacrifice, they bring that into our backyard," says Dr. Won K. Pak, an acupuncturist in Central Square and a 20-year resident of the neighborhood...
Fears like these are rampant in Central Square--fears that the shelter's director believes border on intolerance...