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Family Promise at Durie Center at capacity; point-in-time count similar year-over-year when cold-weather shelter included
Summary
Family Promise reported 29 people in its program (11 adults, 18 children); preliminary Eastern PA Continuum of Care point-in-time (PIT) numbers show lower street count but totals become similar when cold-weather shelter numbers are included.
Family Promise’s program at the Durie Family Community Resource Center is currently at full capacity with 29 people — 11 adults and 18 children — staff said, as local providers reported preliminary point-in-time survey results for 2025.
“Family Promise is at full capacity right now. We have 29 total individuals, 11 adults, 18 children,” the shelter representative said.
Shelter and action-committee members discussed preliminary results from the Eastern Pennsylvania Continuum of Care (Eastern PA COC) point-in-time (PIT) report for 2025. Members said the preliminary, county-level dashboard shows fewer street-count households this year, but that when cold-weather shelter and transitional-shelter figures are added, the total is roughly similar to 2024.
“We had 19 households, 21 persons in 2024. We had 11 households, 13 persons [in 2025 street count],” the action committee member said. Staff said they removed a small number of duplicate records (three) and were still reconciling how cold-weather shelter and transitional-house entries were categorized in the PIT submission.
Shelter partners highlighted that the presence of a cold-weather shelter likely reduced the number of people observed sleeping outdoors in several boroughs during the PIT night. One member said the cold-weather shelter “definitely made a huge difference this year.”
Family Promise representatives also described program plans and fundraising: they said a warming-shelter effort is planned for the coming winter and that the organization hopes to develop community meals into a soup-kitchen model. The organization is holding a fundraiser, “Rockin’ for a Cause,” on Aug. 17 at Penn’s Peak (a Rolling Stones cover band), and encouraged supporters to use the posted QR code to register.
Shelter providers said case-management and movement into permanent housing continue to be bottlenecked by housing search barriers such as landlords— credit and background checks, past evictions and competition for a limited supply of units. Action-committee staff said they are preparing to share the PIT dashboard and a county-level copy of the Eastern PA COC report with task-force members for further analysis and local planning.
