helping the homeless

     Charitable organizations will no longer be allowed to feed the homeless on Philadelphia's city streets. They now have to apply for a permit and set up a station with city government approval.  A city office to co-ordinate efforts to help the homeless would be useful. Given a large building to use as a shelter, with kitchen facilities, the various groups and organizations could take turns staffing it and providing food and clothing. If one building, a large one, could be obtained, it could really be staffed every day, with meals available, instead of vans stopping at one place or another once a week. People with time to give, or donations of goods or food, would know where to take them. Where to put such a building might be a problem, but there are a lot of homeless in the area of City Hall.  How about it, Philadelphia? No one sleeping outdoors. What's it worth?