Two planned homeless shelters on Staten Island will be located in Tompkinsville and at the campus of a South Shore nonprofit, NY1 learned Tuesday evening.

 

 

 

One will be built on the South Shore campus of Mount Loretto, a catholic-charities run nonprofit that already offers some social services. That location will offer 22 beds to women who are 50 and older.

The second shelter is planned to be located at Victory Boulevard near Bay Street in Tompkinsville, in what used to be a Taco Bell. That facility will be run by former City Council Speaker Christine Quinn's nonprofit WIN and will offer 200 beds for women and children.

 

According to the Department of Homeless Services, Staten Island has a homeless population of about 1,300 but has few options for housing in the city's shelter system.

Rep. Max Rose, who represents Staten Island and a portion of south Brooklyn said in a statement that far too many community stakeholders were left out of the process. He's also asking the city detail the plans so the shelters don't turn out to be "another poorly-planned failure."