ALBANY ST SHELTER – CAMBRIDGE

Lisa, a regular at the Albany Street Shelter in Cambridge sits on her bed in the female dormitory, Monday, Feb. 6, 2011. PHOTO BY ERIN BALDASSARI/SOMERVILLE JOURNAL. The Albany Street Shelter is one of three “wet” shelters in the state of Massachusetts, meaning they are legally obligated to take only those homeless residents who are currently under the influence of drugs or alcohol, though they also offer support to those who are sober and waiting for housing.

Advertisements

Leave a Reply

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

Gravatar
WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Google photo

You are commenting using your Google account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Twitter picture

You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Cancel

Connecting to %s

%d bloggers like this: