A decision on the first-room keys should be judged by what happens at the South Welcome House above the lower market stairs. The docket is at step 7 of the current review. Its latest entry reads: The affected crew has tried the revised procedure under ordinary working conditions. A rule that looks complete in the chamber can still leave the people who use it carrying an unmeasured cost.
47 families assigned a room before their temporary bed expires were entered this cycle, compared with 50 in the prior file. That comparison matters because the public summary counts entries. The open question is how the city assigns a first room when family size and district capacity do not line up.
The current list favors earlier arrival; advocates say it can split a household whose members reached the gate on different caravans. The current record does not settle that disagreement. The objection deserves a direct answer, but it is not a reason to make the rule permanent before the affected residents can check the method.
Eni Ved checked the key register and the waiting list for family rooms against the field notes. The method is to ask who can use a service without an interpreter, sponsor or spare hour; it confirms the entries, but not every interpretation attached to them. The practical evidence is a row of numbered keys hanging beside the house’s shared water board; any new measure should record that condition beside the total.
The chamber should approve a limited trial with a published end date, a way to record exceptions and a named reviewer. The housing table will publish the wait by household size, not only by place in line. That is the narrowest decision that can be defended from the evidence now available.
