BOISE, Idaho — After more than two decades, Interfaith Sanctuary’s emergency shelter on River Street in Boise is without any guests, not because the need went away, but because the demand for something more grew too big to ignore.
As of Thursday, March 5, the organization officially closed the River Street shelter and completed its move into a newly built, 24-hour facility at 4306 W. State St., a space four times the size of the warehouse that served as Boise’s primary low-barrier emergency shelter since 2005.
“It’s where it all started,” said Jodi Peterson-Stigers, executive director of Interfaith Sanctuary, during a walkthrough of the now-empty River Street building with KTVB Friday…