Union Gospel Mission
As the city’s temporary network of warming centers across the city grows and begins to fill up, many existing emergency shelters have had to turn people away or only have space for specific demographics.
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Scott Beaulieu, near retirement age at 65, waits in the Day Room at the Union Gospel Mission Thursday, Dec. 6, 2018. Beaulieu lost part of his food to frostbite when he found himself homeless in Bellingham, Washington for 10 days. Now he has received word that he is on a list to get a subsidized apartment.
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Tim Vaughn, left, and Rion Sheets spend the day in the Day Room at Union Gospel Mission Thursday, Dec. 6, 2018. Both are 61 years old and both are disabled by different conditions; Vaughn by arthritis and Sheets by heart problems.
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Zach Raband, 20, fills out a short form as he checks into the the Union Gospel Mission Thursday, Dec. 6, 2018. The Mission houses men for single nights at a time, but tries to get those men into drug and alcohol treatment, job training or GED and job hunting skills.
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Kyle Borup, estranged from his family and without a place to stay, lives in one of the dormitory rooms at Union Gospel Mission, shown Dec. 6, 2018. The Mission asks that each resident place all their clothes in a yellow crate, shower and wear provided pajamas and have their clothes laundered every day.
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Matt Herbstritt, who recently completed the recovery program at Union Gospel Mission, sits in one of the small private bedrooms available to men in the recovery program at UGM Thursday, Dec. 6, 2018.
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