More people are using Fargo warming center than expected as local shelter system stretches beyond capacity

More people are using Fargo warming center than expected as local shelter system stretches beyond capacity

FARGO — As the shelter system in the Fargo area stretches beyond capacity, a city-owned warming center has exceeded the number of people public health officials expected to serve. The space set up at Fargo’s Downtown Engagement Center is serving roughly 70 people a day this month, said Jordan Joshua, harm reduction program operations manager for Fargo Cass Public Health. Officials opened the warming center Nov. 24, with the expectation that it w…