City to shift low-barrier homeless shelter to 200-room downtown hotel

City to shift low-barrier homeless shelter to 200-room downtown hotel

San Antonio’s city-funded low-barrier homeless shelter will move to a larger, leased hotel downtown with more than four times as many rooms.The San Antonio City Council on Thursday morning unanimously approved a two-year $8.8 million lease of the Holiday Inn at Cesar Chavez Boulevard and Santa Rosa, along with a $7.1 million agreement for San Antonio Metropolitan Ministries to operate it as a 200-room, low-barrier shelter. The combined $15.9 mil…