For more than a week, Peter Bell worked the phone lines, trying to get the last of his kids into a home.
Bell runs Wind Youth Services’ 6-bed emergency shelter for homeless adolescents—the only one of its kind in the five-county Sacramento region.
At least he did.
Citing a running deficit in the high five digits, one it could no longer keep pace with, Wind suspended its shelter operations on Friday, February 19.
Before then, the shelter, which serves homeless youths between the ages of 12 and 18, typically operated at full capacity and with a waiting list, though not as long as the one for Wind’s other emergency shelter, for the 18-to-24 homeless population.
“I think this will be felt and reverberate for a while,” Bell told SN&R.
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