Outreach is designed to build relationships with the homeless, bring them food, water, and connect them with shelter. But from what we learned talking to some on the streets, there are mixed feelings about a new one starting in Balcones Heights.
Patrick Robinson is homeless, and he says outreach programs can connect people to shelter, but those shelters have an overcapacity problem and strict rules.
“I was talking to a gentleman three days ago, he’s like man I went to this one shelter they had close to four hundred people in there and they all sleeping on mats I said ok, he’s like no that’s not ok we have nowhere to move in mind cant move cant turn can’t do this can’t do that,” Robinson said…