The lobby on the 1st floor of the Pine Street Inn
women’s shelter reeks.
I really think that the shelter should unlock the
handicapped restroom door on the 1st floor and stop denying free access to it
for the disabled people for whom that restroom is intended.
I also think that the Pine Street Inn should allow all guests
to do laundry in the shelter’s washers and driers, particularly since the
shelter continues to refuse to provide transportation for the disabled guests
to the Women’s Lunch Place, which has free laundry facilities in addition to food,
computers, phones, a medical clinic, and other resources.
It is impossible to understand why the Pine Street Inn women’s
shelter refuses to provide transportation for disabled guests to the Women’s
Lunch Place and to Boston Medical Center, when the Pine Street Inn does provide
that transportation for nondisabled guests.
The renovation of the new staff room on the 3rd
floor of the Pine Street Inn women’s shelter is almost finished, even though
there continues not to be even one electronic, handicapped accessible door in
the entire building.
