November 2025
Winter Safe Shelter
Winter Safe Shelter has been open for over a full month now, and both our Men’s and Women’s locations have been incredibly busy.
Winter Safe Shelter is unique in the fact that it’s open every night — offering consistent, immediate shelter through the winter months — and that it’s high-access, meaning that guests are not required to have IDs or to be sober to access temporary shelter.
Here’s a quick overview of what November at Winter Safe Shelter looked like:
Winter Safe Shelter staff have been working tirelessly to ensure that guests have a safe place to rest every night, and we are incredibly grateful for all of their effort and dedication in launching and sustaining this expansion.
Get a deeper look into the impact of Winter Safe Shelter in this Asheville Citizen-Times article, which includes a powerful statement about Men’s Winter Safe Shelter from one of our guests: “The difference between this and not this, is life. Literally. It’s life or death.”
November Highlights
We are proud to share that a beloved guest, Brandon, officially moved into transitional housing this past month!
Men’s and Women’s Winter Safe Shelters officially opened on November 1st, and both shelters have been in high demand. Learn more about the impact of Winter Safe Shelter’s first month below.