While the security industry generally groups shelter facilities within the “housing” vertical, there are many differences between homeless shelters, public housing, transitional housing, and asylum shelters. Each has varying operational and budgetary considerations that program directors and operators have to manage, including food, healthcare, rehabilitation, and education/ vocational needs for the hundreds of thousands of residents within these facilities.
And of course, there’s the safety and security considerations.
In this report we outline considerations for the former three which we will refer to as “traditional housing” shelters, and the latter – asylum shelters – in the context of providing security services to these different populations, the properties, and communities in which these facilities operate.
We have deep appreciation for the challenges that come with operating these facilities, and this report provides perspectives for anyone who is:
• Federal/state/local agency personnel tasked with overseeing these housing shelters
• The hundreds of not-for-profit organizations and their staff who operate these traditional housing and asylum shelters
• A resident of the communities in which these facilities operate
Download the full report: Arrow Security Traditional Housing and Asylum Shelter White Paper Nov 2024 Web.pdf