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HAP Force to shelter all populations during severe-weather season; registers 81 for the season
Summary
HAP Force reported it will shelter all populations this severe-weather season, has registered 81 people in the last week and expanded hotel capacity and an overflow site to meet need, but faces challenges placing people with cats.
Julie Hall, a HAP Force representative, told the Tri Cities Homelessness Steering Committee that the organization will shelter all populations during the upcoming severe-weather season and has already registered 81 people for shelter in the past week.
Hall said the group will shelter single adults, families and people who are chronically unhoused. “In the last week [we] registered 81 individuals for shelter this season,” she said, adding that roughly 80% of those registrants appear to be chronically unhoused while a smaller share are newly unhoused.
The shelter system’s hotel capacity is 40 rooms; some rooms can hold more than one person. Hall said HAP Force added two hotels this season — WoodSpring at…
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