Yes, I’ve seen that. If the City prohibits the practice (and if it can do so legally), I wouldn’t object. As for the permanent operations, only some are in the DTR core… Shepherd’s Table, Raleigh Rescue, Emmaus, and the Salvation Army Shelter for Women with Children. Over the years other operations have been moved out of DTR, the classic example being the old Ark shelter that was across Cabarrus from the former Amtrak station. Oak City Cares and the South Wilmington Street Center are a mile south of the DTR core, and I believe part of the rational for OCC was to shift clients out of the DTR core. Urban Ministries and Salvation Army are a mile north, and those are relatively new facilities for operations that used to be closer to the core. Family Promise, the Helen Wright Center, Interact, Cornerstone, Haven House, Healing Transitions, and New Beginnings are not in the core and some of them don’t provide food anyway. Dispersing the points of service evenly throughout Raleigh presumes there is a transportation system that’s better than GoRaleigh.
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