POTTSTOWN â The borough council has approved an emergency application to use the former St. Aloysius School on North Hanover Street as a warming center for the homeless.
The permission is valid through April 30 and became necessary because many borough churches that had served as temporary homeless shelters in previous winters, do not have the capacity to house the homeless safely during the coronavirus pandemic.
The center will be open from 8 p.m. to 8 a.m. every night.
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It is estimated that there are perhaps 30 homeless people in Pottstown, and Ministries on Main Street can place roughly 10 in motel rooms overnight, said Karla Romberg, a member of the board of directors at the TriCounty Network.