As temperatures drop and the city’s unhoused population grows, organizations struggle to keep up with an unprecedented demand for support.

In another time, Kat Stein may have been excited about the rapidly approaching winter—that sense of joy knowing they’d soon be cosying up under a blanket while the first snow falls or sipping a hot chocolate on the first truly cold day. But now, the program manager at Out of the Cold Community Association only feels impending doom…