CIVICS | After news that Hope House would close its decades-old women’s shelter, the city council appears poised to prioritize funding for existing shelters.
Despite the confession, the employee was kept on staff and was even listed as the “financial representative” of record on the $6.5 million Trent contract, raising questions about the Guardians’ internal processes and the city’s financial controls.
Providers describe confusion and challenges accessing services after Spokane Regional Health District dropped the program serving people with low and no income.
While the city threatens legal action or a sweep of the encampment, there’s no clear sense of where people are expected to end up were the state or city to remove them from the lot off of I-90.
As long as shelters in Spokane have empty beds, the city can remove encampments and issue citations to people sitting, lying and camping on public land.
