{"id":229164,"date":"2026-06-26T21:37:56","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T21:37:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/229164\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T21:37:56","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T21:37:56","slug":"erie-city-mission-to-acquire-new-shelter-location-in-former-school-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/229164\/","title":{"rendered":"Erie City Mission to acquire new shelter location in former school"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-ylk=\"elm:icon;slk:WJET Erie;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yourerie.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img alt=\"WJET Erie\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"fill\" class=\"pr-2.5 max-w-[150px] max-h-[40px] min-[601px]:max-w-[115px]\" style=\"position:absolute;height:100%;width:100%;left:0;top:0;right:0;bottom:0;color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/lo\/mysterio\/api\/232C1E841BC0BB863E0E9B74B574D5BADEBDCEDD7912DF6C56EBCD799BAD61E9\/subgraphmysterio\/resizefill_w0_h40;quality_80;format_webp\/\"\/><\/a>Thu, June 25, 2026 at 3:03 PM UTC<img alt=\"\" fetchpriority=\"high\" width=\"976\" height=\"549\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/aol_wjet_erie_articles_147\/413d7d88a836abb0ea43d435507719e9.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Erie City Mission to acquire new shelter location in former school<\/p>\n<p>A former Catholic grade school will become a shelter for women and children following a vote in Millcreek Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>The Erie City Mission has plans to create &#8220;The Haven&#8221; inside what used to be Our Lady of Mount Carmel School in the 1500 block of East Grandview Boulevard.<\/p>\n<p><a data-ylk=\"slk:Erie City Mission faces surge in homeless from surrounding region;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yourerie.com\/news\/local-news\/erie-city-mission-faces-surge-in-homeless-from-surrounding-region\/?ipid=promo-link-block1\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0Erie City Mission faces surge in homeless from surrounding region\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The residential shelter will be able to accommodate 70 women and children.<\/p>\n<p>The township&#8217;s zoning hearing board unanimously approved a special exception, allowing a change to how the building is used.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s such a great synergy to go into a school that served so many for so many years and be able to turn it into a wonderful home for women and children. We&#8217;re excited. The board is excited. I&#8217;m excited. A lot was riding on this decision tonight,&#8221; said Erie City Mission CEO Brian Johansson.<\/p>\n<p>The project is expected to take 18 to 24 months and have a total price tag of about $9.5 million.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p><a data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WJET\/WFXP\/YourErie.com.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yourerie.com\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WJET\/WFXP\/YourErie.com.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thu, June 25, 2026 at 3:03 PM UTC Erie City Mission to acquire new shelter location in former&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":229165,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[99098,136,329,138,137,88565,99099],"class_list":["post-229164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-catholic-grade-school","tag-erie","tag-erie-city-mission","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-our-lady-of-mount-carmel-school","tag-residential-shelter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}