The Idaho Falls Rescue Mission’s new changes

Changes were made to the Idaho Falls Rescue Mission. It phased out its involvement in providing low-income and transitional housing. Therefore, the mission no longer owns the Ark or the Ruth House, but it does still provide emergency housing for those in need.

“We do still have the City of Refuge, which is our men’s homelessness shelter. We do still have the emergency shelter for women. And the people we sold the facilities too are partnering with us so that no one is displaced unless they choose to be — unless they choose to go their own directions,” Tyler Perkins, the director of operations, said.

The rescue mission will still keep its emergency shelter programs. It only phased out one portion of its services and handed the operations of that to Aces & Elbows, LLC, that is now a partner.

“The Idaho Falls Recue Mission is acutally paying the new purchasers for the ability [for the homeless] to not be displaced — to stay at the emergency shelter, on property until we transition to a new facility,” Perkins explained. “Aces & Elbow’s specialty is on low-income housing, so they’re the perfect partner. Instead of getting competely out of it, we just transferred ownership. So there isn’t any low-income housing that is going away.”