Room in the Inn – the Urban Ministry Center’s winter shelter program – will close for the season Friday, after recording a 25 percent jump in family members and a 15 percent increase in children who needed a place to sleep. Overall, the nonprofit program filled 17,180 beds with homeless people between Dec. 1 and March 31, using houses of faith, YMCAs, college dorms and schools. That tally is only slightly above last year, but the number who came as part of a family rose to an all-time high of 221 people, including 145 infants and children. Matt Daniels, who coordinates Room in the Inn, says that number includes two families who showed up for the first time the night before the program...
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