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Some shelter tenants forced to give spots to evacuees
Sept. 12, 2005, 6:41AM

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Some shelter tenants forced to give spots to evacuees
By LORI RODRIGUEZ
Copyright 2005 Houston Chronicle


Tempers ran high Sunday at the Salvation Army's Harbor Light Center on North Main as tenants of the rented portion of the shelter were forced to move to the transient section or leave the facility to make way for Katrina evacuees.


"I'm being kicked out so they can turn around and bring in 18 veterans from New Orleans. How is that fair?" said Sean Schisler, as he packed up his meager belongings.

For nearly six years, Schisler, 39, has paid $225 a month for a bed, a small set of drawers and a locker in a room that houses six tenants. Almost every day, he has walked two blocks to the nearby Food Mart, where he cooks up tacos, tortas and hamburgers for residents of the Near Northside neighborhood.
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/front/3349333
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