By June 5, the city of St. Louis will shut down the warehouse it recently started using to house its overflow homeless population, ArchCity Defenders announced this morning.
The June deadline is part of a legal settlement, reached after the non-profit law firm and the legal clinic at Saint Louis University filed a lawsuit last week over the warehouse.
Last Sunday, the city officially shuttered New Life Evangelistic Center, the downtown homeless shelter long considered the "shelter of last resort" for those in need. The Rev. Larry Rice had been operating the place without a permit for years, and city officials had been sharply critical of his management.…