Asteri- the solution?

Recently, there's been some posts about Asteri, bringing attention to the dangerous conditions there. There's been people in the comments that seem frustrated that people are bringing attention to this without offering solutions. So, here's a thread trying to talk about a solution...

In the recovery community we have 2 types of shelters - dry and wet shelters. Dry shelters mean you have to pass a drug test. Wet shelters are the wild West, the few rules they do have (no fighting, no weapons etc) usually go uninforced due to the dangerous and difficult nature of enforcing them.

There is absolutely a need for both wet and dry shelters. However - they fulfill VERY different purposes. Asteri, in my eyes, is a building that wants to cater to those seeking a wet shelter, and also wants to cater to families with children. These two groups of clients should NEVER be mixed.

So my proposed solution is: pick a lane. Be a dry shelters that allows kids, or be a wet shelter that doesn't. It's absolutely mind blowing to anyone in the recovery community that got sober >10 years ago that these types of accomodations would ever be mixed. It's just not a feasible approach, and it never used to be this way.