SPOKANE, Wash. – The closure of the Trent Resource and Assistance Center (TRAC) in October of last year has left Spokane grappling with a shortage of beds for its homeless population. The removal of hundreds of beds has put pressure on the city to find alternative solutions.

Dawn Kinder, Neighborhood Housing and Human Services Director for the City of Spokane, explained the decision to close TRAC. “The primary issue with TRAC was that it was just incredibly expensive to sustain. And the outcomes we were seeing were not in alignment with where we wanted to see the needle move on housing access,” said Kinder.

The Spokane Homeless Coalition’s Barry Barfield highlighted the impact of losing TRAC’s capacity. “Bad in the sense that it was a facility that could hold up to five, 600 people and w

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