Men's only overflow tent raises questions among homeless-- despite there being no problem housing women

Submitted by Mastodon on Mon, 2013-07-29 23:56

Article here. Exception:

'A men's only overflow tent at the homeless shelter on Record Street has some women wondering what their options are.

Sandy Isham with Volunteers of America says, "Historically the need is at least three times larger for men than it is for women."

As Reno's homeless population grows the need for shelter increases. To help prevent people from sleeping on the street, Isham says they have put up an overflow tent, but there's a catch, it's only for men, "There are more men amongst the chronically homeless population, but that's just what we are seeing down here at our campus."
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Isham says, "If there are no beds available they can sit up at a table in our very nice day area in an air conditioned room that is also safe, because it's staffed 24 hours a day."

Some women don't think this option is very accommodating mainly because there are no beds, but Isham says the number of homeless men is much greater than women and so far only one woman has taken advantage of the room.'

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... for women and it wasn't even needed but yet there weren't enough beds for homeless men at the main shelter, the homeless men'd go back to sleeping on the street w/out complaint and in addition, no one would give a crap.

Instead, one homeless woman has been inconvenienced for one night by needing to sleep head-down on a table in an air-conditioned room and it's news.

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Submitted by Matt on Tue, 2013-07-30 02:09