From: PRO-SF [home@prosf.org]
Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2008 4:43 PM
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Subject: "Busters Place" Update: Out In The Cold...

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-----Original Message-----
From: Jennifer Friedenbach [mailto:director@cohsf.org]
Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2008 1:11 PM
To: advocate.list
Subject: busters update

At least 20 people were filed out the door. Four of them were in
wheelchairs. Many were elderly. Not one that I talked to had anywhere
to go.

CHANGES system for the night.
The shelter had not opened yet.
There was TV cameras everywhere.

One woman I talked to was in a wheelchair and looked to be in her early
90's. She was rolling slowly away, and said she had somewhere to go.
When I asked her where, she clearly had no idea and was very confused.
She had nowhere to go, and I did not see her in line at 150 Otis, where
being female, they would have not given here a number to hold her place
in line anyway.

Another couple had a woman in a wheelchair and her husband to care for
her. Of course with the loss of Buster's there is nowhere for them to
be accommodated. She needs his care, and they cannot split up. No
couples are housed in our shelters, and a room was never forth coming.