ST. LOUIS聽鈥 After leaders reversed course on an attempt to clear a homeless encampment outside city hall, a 狐狸视频 official said Tuesday that the park's 10 p.m. curfew will be enforced, and that the city is lining up space for people to stay at area shelters.
Tuesday morning, there were still dozens of people staying on the grass outside of the downtown building, after local officials聽backed out of a Monday night attempt聽to clear the encampment.
At a press conference Tuesday afternoon, 狐狸视频 Department of Human Services Director Adam Pearson said the city had arranged for shelters around the region to keep spaces open, and that outreach workers from his department are helping people bag up their personal belongings to place in city storage.
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He said that as of early Tuesday morning, there had been 37 people staying in the encampment.
He declined to say where the open shelter spaces are located, but said there were 50 beds available. He said some of those beds are in the city, some in 狐狸视频 County, and some are in hotels.
The city's request to keep beds available wasn't made clear to all the advocates trying to find places for homeless people in the camp Tuesday morning, however.
When advocates checked the mobile app used to track shelter beds, just two spaces were marked available at 10:45 a.m. A half-hour later, the app showed only one. The one shelter with apparent capacity, the outreach workers said, only serves women, or women with children.
Pearson said Tuesday that his department is working on ways to communicate better with the network of local homeless support providers.
"I think it's always a question about how we can better coordinate," Pearson said. "I think there are a lot of moving pieces."