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The permanent men’s shelter is a joint project of the city of Madison and Dane County. With this collaboration, the shelter is poised to offer supportive services in addition to overnight accommodations.

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Madison council narrowly shoots down homeless shelter Close Close Close Earlier today, in the wee hours of the morning and after hours of public input and debate, Madison’s Common Council failed to approve purchasing a site for a new, permanent men’s homeless shelter on Zeier Road.  Alders voted 14 in favor of the purchase, with five against. But, since the proposal involved accepting three million dollars in funding from the county, and amending the city’s budget, it needed at least ...

Kim Sutter serves as director of services for of Porchlight Inc., a Madison nonprofit organization that provides services to the homeless community. Earlier this week, Porchlight unveiled a new temporary men’s homeless shelter that is expected to serve up to 250 people a night.  Sutter, who grew up in Beaver Dam and majored in social work at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has been working with the homeless community for over 12 years.  What was your path to working with the hom...

They are the main provider for men in need of shelter in Dane County. For many years, Porchlight provided overnight shelter through basement facilities in 3 Madison churches on the square, with Grace Episcopal Church as the main shelter. But the COVID-19 Pandemic presented a new challenge in Porchlight’s history. Kim Sutter is the Director of Services for Porchlight. When the pandemic hit, she and her colleagues knew they were going to need a new facility to properly follow COVID-19 precautio...

At 5:01 p.m. Wednesday, the first homeless men arriving on multiple buses entered Madison’s new temporary homeless shelter at the city’s former Fleet Services Building on the East Side, the future home of the Madison Public Market. Carl “CJ” Parkin, homeless since mid-July and one of the first inside, moved through screening for COVID-19 and chose a bed in a corner of the massive space and then got bedding and a towel from Christopher Conner, who is also homeless and volunte...