I AGREE with Maggie Richards on "No more student accommodation until we have solved the problem of homelessness".
However I would add that alcoholics and drug addicts are also people needing care and deserving of our sympathy and they, alas, face a truly horrific future with little chance of finding a roof over their heads.
One such man came to our soup and sandwiches luncheon Mondays at the Edmund Kell Unitarian church in Bellevue Road, and he had lived for a long time on the Common, fearing to live in a hostel, probably for good reason.
I don’t know why he took to drink but he was much loved and missed when he died.
The daughter of a friend of ours who came from a very loving family managed to get addicted to heroin and although much effort was made to save her, she died a lonely death in a hotel room. She too was much loved.
There but for the grace of God...
Brenda Knopf
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