COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) – Cold, bitter nights are here to stay, and a local business says an emergency warming shelter is causing serious problems for them.
The shelters exist to keep people experiencing homelessness safe during the winter, which is important, but balancing the two problems is a tight-rope act.
To keep people alive during the snowstorms, organizations like Springs Rescue Mission and Hope COS worked with Colorado Springs to open emergency warming shelters this week, but we spoke with a medical office that operates two doors down from one of the shelters…