AUSTIN, Texas — Editor's note: The attached video is about a new type of homeless shelter coming to Austin.
The Salvation Army's Downtown Austin shelter will soon undergo some changes as the organization works to convert its space and operations to accommodate single adults without children.
On Thursday, Austin's city council approved an increase in grant funding from the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs Homeless Housing and Services Grant in an amount not to exceed $108,000.
The funds will help provide modifications to the downtown shelter for shelter beds for single adults, according to the approved agenda item.
According to the Salvation Army's website, the downtown shelter currently serves more than 242 women, men, families and children.
Families and children currently staying at the shelter will relocate to the organization's new Rathgeber Center, located at 4613 Tannehill Lane.
The 212-bed Rathgeber Center will be 100% case managed, which allows the organization to help families staying there get back to being self-sufficient.
"These families who are going to come in here to our Salvation Army program will be improving their financial status, their employment status, and also finding affordable and safe housing when they exit this program so case management is very important because all those factors do not work without case management," spokesperson Corey Leith said in January.
Some of the families at the downtown shelter will move into the Rathgeber Center in February when the shelter is expected to open.
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