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Facility for Homeless Veterans Opens in Brooklyn Park
The Arundel House of Hope recently opened its Brooklyn Park facility for homeless veterans, according to the Maryland Gazette.
The county's first homeless shelter for veterans, run by the Arundel House of Hope, officially opened Friday in Brooklyn Park, according to The Maryland Gazette.
The Patriot House transitional housing, located at 4103 Ritchie Highway, will give shelter to six homeless veterans. .
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"We don't need a whole block of drug-related businesses in this community," said Woody Bowen, president of the Olde Brooklyn Park Improvement Association, at a Nov. 29, 2010, community meeting.
Gary O'Neil of Arundel Neighborhoods in Brooklyn Park said the block of Ritchie Highway where Patriot House will be already has a halfway house that serves about 26 people who are recovering drug and alcohol addicts and a methadone clinic that sees about 75 to 100 people a day.
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Read the full Gazette story: mdgazette.com/content/house-hope-opens-first-county-shelter-veterans.
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