Santa Fe shelter launches hygiene mobile unit [Video]

Homelessness can Bring many challenges including hygiene, but here in Santa Fe new initiative is opening the door for a clean start.The city of Santa Fe has nearly 400 unhoused people, one of the things some struggle with is the ability to take hot showers. “It’s one of those things that we all take for granted just being able to jump in and take a nice hot shower and feel better to get ready for the day,” Executive Director of the Interfaith Community Shelter at Pete’s Place, Korina Lopez said.Your neighborhood: Local news from KOAT Action 7 NewsNow a new unit called ‘Showers to Go’ is bringing resources directly to the people. “The Hygiene unit itself is kind of like an incentive and then once we have here, we’re like we have all these other services let’s get you into doing case management virtually,” Lopez said.The actual mobile unit is …