Thursday, July 11, 2013

Press Release

BOONE, NC – July 10, 2013: Despite a continuously increasing demand for shelter services the Hospitality House has made the difficult decision to discontinue the use of all emergency shelter overflow beds, effective immediately. When the new Hospitality House facility was completed, it included twenty-four emergency shelter beds, an increase of seven beds from the old 302 W. King St. house, twenty-nine family and transitional housing beds and nine long term housing beds – an overall increase of 68 percent....

What does this mean for the community? Those that become homeless will only be able to stay at the shelter if there is a regular bed available. Hospitality House will no longer be able to take in emergency situations from the hospital or law enforcement if all regular beds are occupied. Hospitality House will continue to serve unsheltered homeless citizens with day services including three daily meals, showers and laundry services....


1 comment:

brotherdoc said...

This is really unfortunate, especially as it is coming at a time when Our Fathers in Raleigh who Know What is Best for Us are slashing unemployment benefits for the few left who will qualify. Their vindictive and mean-spirited attitudes (mirrored locally, of course by our county commission majority) are the opposite of the kind of decency and kindness demonstrated every day at HH.