People experiencing homelessness will not be left out in the bitter cold this week, the city of Spokane pledged on Tuesday.
The city is working with its network of shelter providers to increase capacity and expand hours as temperatures are forecast to drop into the single digits.
This week the city will lean on the use of hotel and motel vouchers in an effort to protect those most vulnerable to COVID-19. The hotel rooms will be paid for with flexible COVID 19-related federal funding, not city dollars.
“As an immediate response, this was one of our best tools,” said Cupid Alexander, the city’s director of Neighborhood, Housing and Human
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