BOZEMAN — The number of homeless people in the Bozeman area is up 20% this year, according to the HRDC. To keep up with the demand, the current warming center has closed, making way for a new, larger shelter called Homeward Point. The new facility opened on Monday.

“It’s a bittersweet thing, to kind of celebrate the opening of a homeless shelter,”

Brian Guyer, the Emergency and Supportive Housing Director for the HRDC.

Brian Guyer's job is to manage the operations of the shelter. Guyer has been with the HRDC for 10 years and helped at the Warming Center on Wheat Drive, which he says was a repurposed rollerskating rink that was “literally bursting at the seams.”

That’s why Guyer says the new shelter is so crucial. He says it’s “a facility that is really meant to meet the needs of our un

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