'No plan' for Bishop Dudley House to leave downtown location
Meeting called to address concerns over fence
The Bishop Dudley Hospitality House, a homeless shelter in downtown Sioux Falls, isn’t going anywhere soon.
The Catholic Diocese of Sioux Falls has no plans to sell the land, a church official said Monday following an occasionally contentious public meeting prompted by plans for a city-funded fence meant to curb crime on the block.
“There's no plan. There's no discussion of it,” Chancellor Thad Pals said in an interview with Sioux Falls Live after the meeting at the Downtown Public Library. “Is it in the back of everybody’s mind, of course it is, because you have to think about that kind of stuff.”
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