For the last decade, to constant criticism from advocates for the homeless, the city has crowded thousands of men into vast armory shelters that became symbols of its inability to offer a meaningful alternative to the streets. Several weeks ago, faced with a lawsuit that advocates said could have shut the two largest -- Fort Washington and Bedford Atlantic in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn -- the Dinkins administration began drastically reducing their populations, a move that it calls a significant step toward upgrading its programs for the homeless.
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Friday, July 17, 1992
For Some, Shelters Mean Chaos and Home
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