A Rochester homeless shelter operator is disbanding, having already shuttered a series of shelters over the past year.
REACH Advocacy, at its peak, boasted six shelters totaling about 80 beds in its system known as Project Haven. All have closed, worsening the shortage of shelter space amid a spike in homelessness in the Rochester region.
The nonprofit, which was entirely grant and donation supported, simply ran out of money, said Pat Tobin, the group’s board chairman. He described the dissolution as “painful.” There is a clear need for low barrier shelters, he said, but the day-to-day operations of running one became unsustainable…