Neighbors hear pitch to turn Everett parish hall into daytime shelter
EVERETT — An unused building at the former Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic Church is being eyed as a daytime shelter for homeless people in Everett.
Around 100 people attended a meeting Thursday about the proposal at the building on the northwest corner of Everett Avenue and Pine Street. Some voiced support for the project, others empathy for homeless people but worry over the impacts to the neighborhood, with others boisterously fearful of burglaries and drug use.
It comes just a couple of months after persistent outcry scuttled a proposal for Hope Church to sell its property, in the Glacier View neighborhood, to the county for conversion into an overnight homeless shelter.
The Catholic Church-hosted daytime shelter process is still in its early stages, and approval is subject to permits from the city — which haven’t been submitted yet — that could be a year out.
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