PORT ANGELES — Serenity House will take a new aim at hitting a moving target:
Put the target into permanent housing.
Seen another way, how can you treat substance abuse, a brain disorder or physical illness in a person who’s living on the street?
From a third perspective, how can you stop a homeless person from using the Clallam County jail as a motel or Olympic Medical Center’s emergency room as a clinic — both highly expensive alternatives to what Serenity House has in mind?
That idea is taking final form at 535 E. First St., in Port Angeles, where crews are refurbishing 13 units of what once was Aggie’s Motel.
Serenity House expects to open them in August to what are termed chronically homeless persons — persons whose alcohol or drug dependency, mental illness, or chronic medical condition has prevented them from finding a safe, stable home.
