Atlanta Homeless Wary As City Closes Its Last-Resort Shelter

A man sits in a room inside the Peachtree-Pine homeless shelter in Atlanta. For decades, as many as 1,000 people with nowhere else to turn could come off the street at the shelter. But the Metro Atlanta Task Force for the Homeless has sold the building.

Robert Ray / Associated Press

Cities across the U.S. are trying to help the homeless find beds of their own, rather than a cot for the night. In theory, no one should stay in a shelter very long.

Atlanta is putting this theory to a hard, real-world test by closing its last shelter of last resort.

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