'Supportive Housing' Hailed for Helping Homeless

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In the 90 years since a Methodist philanthropist founded the Mary Elizabeth Inn as a rooming house for the city's single women, the 88- room hotel has lodged immigrants and tourists, widows and retirees, students and victims of domestic violence.

Today, the genteel, Edwardian- style residence club welcomes a new sort of guest: 25 homeless women, most with persistent mental- health and substance- abuse problems. Along with a room of their own and a shared bath, they get a case manager and access to computer training, fitness classes, a health clinic and other intensive aid designed to keep them from slipping back onto the streets.

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'Supportive Housing' Hailed for Helping Homeless

"I don't think women should be in our shelter system,' said Mayor Gavin Newsom, whose administration is paying to move the women from a notorious basement dormitory in the city's largest homeless shelter to the inn's sor...

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