SPOKANE, Wash. — You may start to see more people sleeping on the streets at night. Next week, the city is getting rid of 30 shelter beds.

The Navigation Shelter will become a daytime-only center. The city noticed a gap in homeless services.

"We don't have a lot of places for people to go during the day," said Erin Hut from the City of Spokane.

Right now, only people staying at the shelter can get services there. Julie Garcia from Jewels Helping Hands said they turn people away.

"They were turning away a lot of people during the day and at night," Garcia said.

The shelter serves 30 people now. As a daytime center,

"It's a space for them to come during the day where they can get ID, social security cards, case managers," Garcia said.

"If that's a housing voucher, if it's access to ap

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