Church homeless shelter
is crowded but needed
Offering only pews or the floor to sleep on, conditions at a homeless shelter at Westgate Tabernacle are far from good, the executive director of the Palm Beach County Homeless Coalition told a jury.But, Gerard Demaris said, he routinely sends desperate people there anyway.
"I tell them it's not a good situation. 'You're not going to get a bed, but at least you'll have food and you'll be welcome there,'" he said.
With at least 4,000 homeless people in the county and only 12 emergency beds available,* homeless advocates simply have no other place to send men, women and families who have no place to go, he said.
Read the Palm Beach Post story here.
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* And I thought the numbers were bad in Orlando! The state Office of Homelessness estimates there are 6,500 homeless people in Orange County, and there are only about 2,000 shelter beds.
posted by Jacqueline Dowd @ 11:37 AM
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