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image captionThe Nightshelter has provided more than 4,300 homeless people with accommodation in the past two decades
The closure of a homeless shelter in Cardiff will mean negative outcomes for the people who use it, a former support worker has said.
The Nightshelter, in Riverside, has provided emergency accommodation for rough sleepers for more than 20 years.
But the Wallich charity has decided to shut the shelter and turn it into supported accommodation.
The charity said its decision was due to the pandemic and major changes to how homeless people are supported.
The former support worker, who asked not to be named, told the Local Democracy Reporting Service the shelter was currently the least chaotic and most intimate shelter in Cardiff, and many service users will only stay there .
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