Start with the key register and the waiting list for family rooms. It is the source used to make a decision about how the city assigns a first room when family size and district capacity do not line up; it is not the decision itself. The rule only works if the source describes the conditions at the South Welcome House above the lower market stairs.
The latest count is 44 families assigned a room before their temporary bed expires; the prior file listed 45. The clerk has matched the claim to its source register and named the missing record. The difference is a signal to check, not a verdict about who is right.
The disputed point is practical: The current list favors earlier arrival; advocates say it can split a household whose members reached the gate on different caravans. One side relies on the posted total, while the other points to a row of numbered keys hanging beside the house’s shared water board.
The risk of reading the file too broadly is that an entry becomes a conclusion. 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.
Next: The housing table will publish the wait by household size, not only by place in line. A useful update will publish the method, exceptions and review date with the number.
