Edmon Lessley was cheerful as he stood outside the Loveland Resource Center on Tuesday morning, drinking coffee and chatting with other guests. The night before, he was among several dozen people who slept there after the city cleared tents from the municipal plaza and reopened the center for overnight use.

But Lessley’s sunny exterior couldn’t quite hide his worry that the city’s latest move was just a stopgap, not a solution.

“I’m right on the cusp of pulling myself out of the hole,” he said. “Now the tents are gone, Fort Collins isn’t an option and there’s still nowhere permanent to stay.”

The reopening of overnight shelter at the Resource Center on South Lincoln Avenue came a week after the city shut down the South Railroad Facility , which had offered up to 50 overnight beds. The

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