Globe: Shelter won’t be fully ready until summer at earliest

by David Abel

Last year, Mayor Martin J. Walsh promised that the city’s new shelter on Southampton Street would be ready by April for nearly 500 homeless men displaced last fall from their refuge on Long Island.

But a tour on Friday revealed that much of the new shelter remains a construction zone. Only 100 men have moved in so far, and city officials acknowledged that the rest of the beds won’t become available until at least this summer.

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