Mayor’s shelter-bed quota not absolute after all

Wilson says enough beds for the immediate need will suffice

Mayor Keith Wilson faced a packed house at the Armory in late July, many of whom were fighting his proposed overnight shelter in the Pearl District..

For the first nine months of Mayor Keith Wilson’s administration, his grand plan to end unsanctioned camping was tied to an immutable benchmark: 1,500 shelter beds by Dec. 1.

That shelter capacity was suppos…