‘Someone just needed to do it’: Manna to open warming center for homeless at Episcopal Church
Kalia Richards, who lives at the Grove Street shelter, looks over what’s left of at least four tents that caught fire in a homeless camp near Pulaski Park in Northampton last weekend. GAZETTE FILE PHOTO
Published: 2/5/2021 10:56:05 PM
NORTHAMPTON As a pastor at Cathedral in the Night, Stephanie Smith has met people this winter who are homeless for the first time and was troubled that they had no place to go to keep warm in the pandemic, outside of Northampton’s two shelters.
“We do not have a warming center right now and that’s a real concern,” Smith said last week at a joint meeting of the City Council committees on City Services and Community Resources that focused on housing security.