‘Homelessness is solvable’: Community conversation searches for solutions for Allentown’s unhoused

ALLENTOWN, Pa. — Dozens of people on Tuesday brainstormed solutions to homelessness at Allentown YMCA’s Warming Station, where residents of an encampment soon could be spending their nights.

The camp’s impending closure — first set for Monday but extended until Sept. 29 — left many people “angry, frustrated and heartbroken,” Christina DiPierro, co-chairwoman of Allentown’s Commission on Homelessness, said during a Community Conversation.

But DiPierro touted some progress that’s been made in the weeks since Mayor Matt Tuerk’s decision to close the camp…

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