PIERRE — Missouri Shores is looking at a one-and-a-half million dollar gap in funds versus estimated costs for a new domestic violence victim’s shelter to serve central South Dakota. Executive Director Sarah Reinhart says the cost for building the House of Hope has increased like other construction costs since the project was proposed in October of 2021…
The House of Hope project was jump started by the award of a two-million dollar Community Development Block Grant and one-point-one million dollar grant from the South Dakota Housing Development Authority. Reinhart says Missouri Shores will be seeking additional grant dollars…
Reinhard says Missouri Shores has received great support from the community so far and hopes that will continue…
In the last two years, Missouri Shores has spent over five-thousand dollars on hotel rooms to deal with shelter overflow that a larger shelter would alleviate.
