Yes, 2 computers, for 120 people.
This is all a big step; the Pine Street Inn has never had these things for guests before, not in all of the previous decades since it began.
The room in which these items are available to guests can have 2 or 3 people in it at a time without them feeling crowded, as long as none of them are talking.
Unfortunately, the room is only available for a few hours every week.
You'd think that, instead of the guests lining up outside the shelter and around the block every day, for hours, including in the winter, to be given beds when the shelter opens at 3:15 p.m., the shelter would open at 1:00 p.m. or earlier so that guests could do housing and employment searches and fill out applications for both.
Also unfortunately, the staff who work from 7:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. have manipulated the shelter's director into not allowing guests into the building until 3:15 p.m. I don't know when their job title will be changed to "Sit On Our Asses And Do Nothing Other Than To Ridicule Guests Who Are In Wheelchairs And Bitch To The Director About How Hard Our Jobs Are, Even Though There Are Working Homeless Women Who Have To Sleep At The Airport And The Train Station Because The Pine Street Inn Won't Give Them Beds," but it would be a more accurate title.
