Covent Garden residents and businesses try to shut down homeless hostel
homeless activist | 06.03.2008 12:03
Local residents and businesses in Covent Garden are wageing a war against a local homeless hostel on Endell Street run by homeless charity St Mungos. They are demanding it be shut down stating its presence is responsible for drug related crime in the area. St Mungos staff have agreed to meet local residents to allay fears but their offer has been snubbed by residents who are determind to force its closure no matter what.
The full story is here in the local Covent Garden magazine.
http://www.coventgarden.uk.com/community/community_content.php?c0=10&c1=39&no=580
If this hostel is forced to close then it will mean more homeless people having to sleep on the streets with no where to go. The hostel is temoraryly closed for refurbishment but is due to reopen soon. Local residents claim that all the hostels residents are violent drug users who are making their lives a misery. But the charity which runs the hostel has agreed to make changes to confront the drug problem and prevent any problems with drug use and have offered to have open disscusions with local resident and businesses at public meetings but these generous offerers have been snubbed.
Send comments to
Kim@coventgarden.uk.com the editor of the magazine.
http://www.coventgarden.uk.com/community/community_content.php?c0=10&c1=39&no=580 If this hostel is forced to close then it will mean more homeless people having to sleep on the streets with no where to go. The hostel is temoraryly closed for refurbishment but is due to reopen soon. Local residents claim that all the hostels residents are violent drug users who are making their lives a misery. But the charity which runs the hostel has agreed to make changes to confront the drug problem and prevent any problems with drug use and have offered to have open disscusions with local resident and businesses at public meetings but these generous offerers have been snubbed.
Send comments to
Kim@coventgarden.uk.com the editor of the magazine.
homeless activist