The San Diego Housing Commission has signed off on plans to replace hundreds of shelter beds the city will soon lose access to, improving the odds that homeless residents staying at facilities set to close will have somewhere else to go. The board of commissioners unanimously approved several measures Friday to offer up rooms through Veterans Village of San Diego, the Rescue Mission’s new National City shelter and a program that has long helped people struggling with alcoholism. At least some spots should be available by Dec. 1, although they do not come anywhere close to meeting the region’s overall demand. “We just don’t have enough beds,” Casey Snell, the commission’s senior vice president for homelessness housing innovations, said at a public hearing. The city has fielded more than 8,100 requests for shelter since the start of the year, yet only around 1,060 of those resulted in someone ending up under a roof, officials said. That’s roughly a 13 percent success rate. A number of factors are likely influencing the numbers, including the recent drop in temperature. Public data show that homeless residents have died of hypothermia in San Diego, and the city has so far opened up additional places to sleep four times this month through the Inclement Weather Shelter Program. During previous winters, many of those spots initially went unused, Snell added. But this year almost three-quarters of all inclement weather beds have already been taken. The rising demand has no doubt also been driven by the fact that homelessness countywide continues to rise. Nearly 1,270 people reported losing a place to stay for the first time in October, according to the Regional Task Force on Homelessness. Only 940 homeless people were housed during the same period. It was the 31st straight month that the crisis has grown. The shelter replacement plan San Diego is expected to lose access to more than 600 beds by the end of the year, mainly because two large shelters are shutting down: Golden Hall in the Civic Center is at the end of its permit and Father Joe’s Villages is converting the Paul Mirabile Center downtown into a detox and sober-living space. Friday’s votes approved a proposal that was originally announced before the election. Veterans Village of San Diego has had open rooms at its Mission Hills campus since the California Department of Health Care Services, citing “serious concerns about client safety,” revoked the nonprofit’s license to run a substance use treatment center. As a result, 130 beds at the site will now be available to any single adult or senior and overseen by Father Joe’s Villages. The housing commission did agree to let Veterans Village manage an additional 40 shelter beds at the same campus for people who’ve served in the military. That program will cost more than $602,000 through June. Continuing to tap those spots for veterans would annually require more than $1 million. The contract offers Veterans Village a new source of funding after the loss of their license threw budgets into disarray. The nonprofit “needed some stabilization” and “we needed the beds,” Lisa Jones, the commission’s president and CEO, said at the hearing. “It was sort of an opportunity marriage.” The agency additionally agreed to spend more than $544,000 in the coming months to access more than three dozen spots at the Rescue Mission’s South County Lighthouse, a shelter that opened earlier this year. The annual cost would be more than $980,000. Finally, the commission approved the use of 56 more private beds at two San Diego facilities that host the Adult Substance Use Outpatient Program for Alcohol Use. While clients currently in the program shouldn’t be affected, staffers will temporarily stop accepting new additions to a housing program in order to open up spots for shelter. The first six months of the contract with TURN Behavioral Health Services will cost about $356,000. The annual budget after that would total more than $712,000. Combined with the expansion of the city’s two designated camping areas near Balboa Park, as well as negotiations with an as-yet-unnamed motel, officials believe all 600-plus “lost” beds should soon have at least some sort of replacement. “Adding these new shelter beds is another significant step toward getting people off our streets and on the path to ending their homelessness,” Mayor Todd Gloria said in a statement. There are other proposals to boost capacity in the pipeline, although a safe parking project by the airport is facing a lawsuit and a lease to turn an empty warehouse into one of the nation’s largest shelters is still being negotiated.