Sunday, November 11, 2018

There are no wheelchair-accessible doors at the women's shelter at the Pine Street Inn.

Not the entrances.

Not the exits.

Not the doors to the offices.

Not the doors to the restrooms.

Even the handicapped bathroom doesn't have a wheelchair-accessible door. 


Homeless shelters have the highest concentration of the elderly, the disabled, and the severely or terminally ill that I have ever encountered, yet the shelter system does little to nothing for those people.  It doesn't prioritize housing for them, nor does it save beds for them.  Women in wheelchairs and everyone else described at this page are sent out of the shelters at night when there are no beds for them.