Hope House readies new shelter

Volunteers of America, which operates the Hope House, offered the first tour of its future emergency shelter and permanent supportive housing complex on West Third Avenue on Thursday.

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Thu., Oct. 29, 2020

Fawn Schott, president and CEO of Volunteers of America Eastern Washington and Northern Idaho, center, gives a tour of Hope House, a new 120 bed women’s homeless shelter that also includes 60 units of permanent supportive housing, Thurs., Oct 29, 2020. The Hope House shelter is a project of the Volunteers of America Eastern Washington & Northern Idaho. The new shelter was made possible with a $1 million grant from Premera Blue Cross, the Washington-based health insurer.

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Logan Dyson with Spilker Masonry Co., works on an exterior wall of the new Hope House women’s shelter under construction at 1301 W. Third Ave.

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Fawn Schott, president and CEO of Volunteers of America Eastern Washington and Northern Idaho, gives a tour of Hope House, a new 120-bed women’s homeless shelter that also includes 60 units of permanent supportive housing, on Oct. 29.

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Construction workers work on the roof of the Hope House, a new 120-bed women’s homeless shelter that also includes 60 units of permanent supportive housing, Thurs., Oct 29, 2020. Local officials warn coronavirus could spread in more shelters after an outbreak at one facility in Spokane.

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Former Spokane Mayor and now Vice President of Eastern Washington Premera Blue Cross speaks to Volunteers of America and Premera employees during a tour of the under-construction Hope House, a new 120 bed women’s homeless shelter that also includes 60 units of permanent supportive housing, Thurs., Oct 29, 2020. The Hope House shelter is a project of the Volunteers of America Eastern Washington & Northern Idaho. The new shelter was made possible with a $1million grant from Premera Blue Cross, the Washington-based health insurer.

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