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Pine Street Inn has supporters near its proposed South End houses
By adamg on Thu, 04/10/2008 - 8:02am
When last we discussed Upton Street, it was to point to a South End News story about neighbors bemoaning the ruination of their tiny street by a Pine Street Inn proposal to convert three houses that had been used as transitional homes for people with problems into permanent housing for them.
Now the News reports:
Around 50 residents, elected officials, and concerned citizens squeezed into a community room on Shawmut Avenue on April 2, to show their support for the Pine Street Inn’s proposal to turn three row-homes on Upton Street into permanent housing for formerly homeless and low-income individuals ...
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elm street
Any sort of support for ppl in recovery is helpful for eveyone.
Just FYI...
Several agencies (mine included) have a component of providing supported housing services to people with various disabilities. These folks live in apartments, either alone or with roommates, and have some sort of staffing arrangement ranging from visits once a week to 24/7 staff present. My agency serves around 500 people living in supported housing in Boston. And we're not the only such program around. In other words, there are folks with disabilities living in supported housing all over the place. All of us have neighbors with supported housing services and probably don't even know it.
I just thought this might help provide some perspective, since I've heard people (not on here, but elsewhere) indicate that they view this is a totally new development that will completely change the neighborhood. It's been going on for years, and most of the neighbors don't even realize that someone living down the street is part of a "program."