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Dear Sir or Madam, I am writing this letter to explain the problems, stress and abuse, a blind person like myself suffers in a homeless shelter, like the one I have been living for the last one year and a half. I really need the city to know that a homeless shelter like this is not a place for a blind person. I blind person is a very vulnerable individual and the people in a homeless shelter is not at all a good environment to trust nobody will try to take advantage of his vulnerability. Most of the residents here are ex-convicts on parole, many of the people here have or come from substance abuse problems (the guy in the bed next to mine died some weeks ago). It is easy to see many residents here suffer mental health issues (some guy tried to commit suicide right in front of me just a couple of weeks ago. None of those is my case. I became homeless when my wife left me argueing she was sick of dragging me around the supermarkets (making reference to the burden my disabili...