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Theres some shuffling and grumbling as a man in a wheelchair gets to take priority in line at the House of Charity, Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2017. The lineup for a bed, even just a thin foam pad on the concrete floor, starts around 6 p.m., though the doors don’t open until about 7 p.m. most nights outside the homeless shelter. In the rain or extreme cold, the crowd can get restive or impatient, most everyone usually at least gets a place to sit up in a chair, out of the cold, if not a bed for the night.
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Some 70 men sleep on the cold concrete using thin foam pads, Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2017, at the House of Charity in downtown Spokane. The venerable homeless shelter has a 105-bed men’s dormitory, but needs twice that many beds to get everyone out of the cold who wants to stay there. They have 118 foam pads and all are being used on most nights.
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David Remsen, second from right, and another security guard check on a homeless man sleeping by the back door to an office building in downtown Spokane, Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2017. The security guards walk the neighborhood and look for homeless people who are sleeping in places that might inconvenience businesses.
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Nick Greif, once homeless himself from drinking too much, now mans the front gate as Spokanes homeless line up for a bed at the Catholic Charities shelter, Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2017. More than 200 people are in line for the 7 p.m. opening of the doors, allowing 105 men in to sleep in beds in the dormitory while more than 100 others can sleep on the concrete floor with a thin pad and a thin blanket.
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Almost a dozen homeless people take shelter under the porch of a small business in downtown Spokane, Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2017. Although the House of Charity tries to find a bed for everyone who needs one, a few dozen homeless people sleep in doorways, tents, alleys and cardboard boxes around downtown Spokane.
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Lee Goehring- Gleese, left, and Operations Assistant Nick Greif, right, staff the front desk of the House of Charity after the lights are turned out and many of the homeless residents for the night are drifting off to sleep, Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2017. Goehring-Gleese is an RC, a resident client, who helps out around the shelter and also lives there.
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Nick Greif, right, once homeless himself from drinking too much, now mans the front gate as Spokanes homeless line up for a bed at the Catholic Charities shelter, Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2017. More than 200 people are in line for the 7 p.m. opening of the doors, allowing 105 men inside to sleep in beds in the mens dormitory while more than 100 others can sleep on the concrete floor with a thin pad and a thin blanket.
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David Remsen, a contracted security guard for the House of Charity checks out a loading dock area at a business on a block near the HOC to see if there were homeless people sleeping there. One of the security guards missions is to minimize the impact on businesses around the HOC.
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David Remsen, a contracted security guard for the House of Charity talks about the job of keeping the peace at the homeless shelter while also walking the surrounding blocks and trying to find other homeless people sleeping outside and guiding them back to the shelter if they are impeding businesses or in danger from weather or other factors.
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Security guards from the House of Charity look down into a sewage overflow sump in downtown Spokane, Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2017. The security guards walk the neighborhood and look for homeless people who are sleeping in places that might inconvenience businesses or be unsafe for the homeless.
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David Remsen, left, and another security guard check on a homeless man sleeping by the back door to an office building in downtown Spokane, Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2017. The security guards walk the neighborhood around the House of Charity and look for homeless people who are sleeping in places that might inconvenience businesses.
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Seventy or so mats are laid out in the cafeteria at the House of Charity in downtown Spokane awaiting the homeless who gather at the door of the HOC around 6 p.m. looking for a bed. Although there is a mens dormitory with 105 beds, there are at least twice that many who need a bed in Spokane on any given night. Photographed Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2017.
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Behind buildings, in alleys and on loading docks, trash left behind from the homeless who sleep or camp there is shown Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2017. Security guards from the House of Charity, the large downtown homeless shelter, patrol nearby businesses to cut down on the litter and trespassing problems.
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After lights out and most of the homeless men and women have claimed a mat on the floor at the House of Charity, Molly Kenoyer answers the phone at the downtown homeless shelter, Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2017.
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Molly Kenoyer, center, explains procedures to a client Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2017 at the House of Charity in downtown Spokane. Kenoyer has a college degree in social work and will leave to work at a non-profit as a caseworker for the elderly. Jesse Tinsley/THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW
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Molly Kenoyer, a social worker on staff at the House of Charity, lays out thin pads where people will sleep, Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2017 at the HOC. The venerables mens shelter, which has 105 beds in a dormitory-like upstairs room, hosts more than a hundred other people on this mats on the ground throughout the downstairs area.
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Operations assistants Nick Greif, right, and Molly Kenoyer clean and ready for the influx of homeless folks looking for a place to sleep, Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2017 at the House of Charity.
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