Yesterday, we reported that there will be a community meeting tonight (Wednesday, July 14, 2010) at 7 p.m. concerning a planned homeless shelter at Green Lake’s Bethany Lutheran Church.
The shelter will house twenty homeless men who are participants in SHARE (Seattle Housing and Resource Effort). The church and SHARE will be working together for a one-month trial period beginning tomorrow (Thursday).
Today, we learned that a similar SHARE shelter was located at a Ballard church last year. The shelter was eventually shut down due to SHARE’s highly controversial screening procedures.
Our news partner My Ballard closely followed the story as it developed:
February 2009 – Emotions run high at homeless shelter meeting
April 2009 – SHARE: Sex offender screening ‘un-American’
May 2009 – Church votes on shelter, results on Sunday
May 2009 – Homeless shelter to move into Ballard church
September 2009 – SHARE: Sex offender removed from shelter
September 2009 – Our Redeemers: ‘More than deeply saddened’
October 2009 – Neighbors: Make changes at homeless shelter
November 2009 – Controversial Ballard homeless shelter to close
We will be keep you up-to-date on this story as it develops in Green Lake, beginning with tonight’s meeting at Bethany Lutheran Church.
