Downtown hotel turned homeless shelter gets first residents
First 10 of 45 rooms filled with clients of existing SAMMinistries program; new clients could arrive next week Organizers ramping up efforts to help homeless community staying at San Antonio motel shelter
SAN ANTONIO – A downtown San Antonio hotel-turned-homeless-shelter has already started filling vacancies, though it’s not fully open yet.
The San Antonio City Council voted on June 17 to lease the Days Inn on East Houston Street, near I-37, for SAMMinistries to operate as a low-barrier emergency shelter. SAMMinistries took control of the property on July 6 after the holiday weekend and has since filled 10 of the 45 rooms with members of a similar pilot program it ran at another downtown hotel.