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EXCLUSIVE: Homeless Women May Be Evicted en Masse, in Height of Winter
By Matthew Cardinale and Jonathan Springston, Atlanta Progressive News (January 31, 2007)
(APN) ATLANTA – Over one hundred homeless single women and women with children are facing uncertain futures on this freezing cold night, as the Gateway Overflow shelter for women prepares to abruptly close, Atlanta Progressive News has learned.
"They can't put them out in this cold! That would just be unthinkable! Tomorrow is going to be one of the coldest and rainiest nights of the year," Rev. Timothy McDonald of the First Iconium Baptist Church said.
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"I called Gateway and spoke to the woman that's in the charge of the regular women and children's shelter at Gateway, Lindsay Myers [spelling unconfirmed]. She said tonight was the last night for the Overflow women. The original shelter was 30 women and it will return to 30 after tonight," Harris said.
"We're almost at the end of Year Four of the Mayor’s Ten Year Plan to End Homelessness. To be discussing this subject is despicable. To be talking about where women and children are going to go, especially in the cold, to be exposed, it's just appalling," Harris said.
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By Matthew Cardinale and Jonathan Springston, Atlanta Progressive News (January 31, 2007)
(APN) ATLANTA – Over one hundred homeless single women and women with children are facing uncertain futures on this freezing cold night, as the Gateway Overflow shelter for women prepares to abruptly close, Atlanta Progressive News has learned.
"They can't put them out in this cold! That would just be unthinkable! Tomorrow is going to be one of the coldest and rainiest nights of the year," Rev. Timothy McDonald of the First Iconium Baptist Church said.
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"I called Gateway and spoke to the woman that's in the charge of the regular women and children's shelter at Gateway, Lindsay Myers [spelling unconfirmed]. She said tonight was the last night for the Overflow women. The original shelter was 30 women and it will return to 30 after tonight," Harris said.
"We're almost at the end of Year Four of the Mayor’s Ten Year Plan to End Homelessness. To be discussing this subject is despicable. To be talking about where women and children are going to go, especially in the cold, to be exposed, it's just appalling," Harris said.
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