IT IS DIFFICULT not to sympathize with the leaders of Central Union Mission, a District charity house near Logan Circle. Booted via eminent domain from their property near Pennsylvania Avenue in the 1980s, they have ministered to the city's homeless since from their property on 14th Street NW, which contains 82 beds for overnight guests. They complain that the building is too old and too cramped to accommodate their programs, and they are planning to move their shelter to the District's Petworth neighborhood. But it now looks as though a spate of not-in-my-back-yard outrage -- some of it reasonable, some not -- will delay the relocation....
Being Charitable
IT IS DIFFICULT not to sympathize with the leaders of Central Union Mission, a District charity house near Logan Circle. Booted via eminent domain from their property near Pennsylvania Avenue in the 1980s, they have ministered to the city's homeless since from their property on 14th Street NW, which contains 82 beds for overnight guests. They complain that the building is too old and too cramped to accommodate their programs, and they are planning to move their shelter to the District's Petworth neighborhood. But it now looks as though a spate of not-in-my-back-yard outrage -- some of it reasonable, some not -- will delay the relocation....