Advocates want to enhance local data analysis as San Antonio's annual count of unhoused individuals showed more families are facing homelessness.
Melissa Smith, a San Antonio Zoo employee, stands outside the door to her dorm at the Haven for Hope shelter.Dozens of children laughed and yelled on a near-West Side daycare’s jungle gym Friday morning, absorbing as much playtime as they could before the blazing summer sun rose the temperature into triple-digits.
The childcare center is just one of the dozens of on-campus services offered at Haven for Hope. While Haven’s proximity to the train tracks can interrupt peaceful moments and traffic to and from the shelter, Smith said she and most of kids enjoy it. They screamed with delight, seemingly trying to match the train’s volume as it passed.Success! You're on the list.
In 2016, Haven adopted a policy to never turn a family with children away. That means lobbies and conference rooms often double as large bedrooms with mats scattered around the floor at night. Roughly 300 children currently live at the shelter with their parents or guardians. The point-in-time count, which the federal government requires from communities, is an imperfect snapshot measurement giving an annual look at overall trends in the local homeless population.
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