Supporters say the homes offer more privacy and safety than traditional homeless shelters, but some unhoused residents worry there will be too many rules.
To stay in the streets near the bus terminal, sometimes at the airport, et cetera, and not go into these shelters? what s the fear that is driving them to stay away? well, there s two things. and there s two set of immigrants we have in downtown streets and sidewalks in el paso. one are the ones who have been processed by border patrol so they have been given a piece of paper. also, a good amount of them, they had not been processed. they just came across downtown massively, and now they do not receive institutional support, like for example, the opening of the centers in el paso, they do not accept members or immigrants that do not have documents. many of them, they don t have an option but to stay in the streets. many of them are afraid of some