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…