Community Kitchen pushes for homeless shelter

[CMF Newsman]

From November until March, the Chattanooga Community Kitchen operated nearly 24 hours a day, seven days a week, to provide shelter for more than 100 people who had no place else to go.

Kitchen officials said they can't do that again this November, at least not in the same way.

"It was incredibly taxing," Kitchen Assistant Director Jens Christensen said. "Having people together 24 hours a day. It was cabin fever. There was no time to maintain the facility."

The hope is that an agency or some group of agencies will step up to provide a second permanent emergency shelter to help people get into permanent housing. So far, no organization or agency is filling that gap.

www.wrcbtv.com/story/17656384/community-kitchen-pushes-for-homeless-shelter

[Babs]

As someone who works with a lot of homeless, that was a great service! I talked to a guy this week who lived in the woods behind a Walmart until he found his way to the kitchen. Not a drinker or a druggie, either!

[pictureman]

Aren't they building a new one across from the Kitchen on 11th Street?

[mikeydokey]

May 14, 2012 15:07:34 GMT -5 Babs said:

As someone who works with a lot of homeless, that was a great service! I talked to a guy this week who lived in the woods behind a Walmart until he found his way to the kitchen. Not a drinker or a druggie, either!

Well he could have been living up there at the Courthouse Lawn until recently, guess he missed his chance.