Hastings Mayor Lawrence Yule said he was hugely impressed with the devotion of the Swannell family to get such a facility up and running.
"And I say to people 'let's all get in behind it."
Mr Yule said he had been in touch with Property Brokers Hawke's Bay manager Paul Whitaker and they had agreed to set up a meeting some time this week to look at what possible land options are out there.
The building, in St Aubyn St West, had been used as offices by the real estate firm for 20 years and has to be removed in the next three months.
Mr Yule said finding a permanent new home for the proposed home was the number one target but, he said, if a temporary place to park it up had to found, if the three-month time frame ran out, then that too would be addressed.
Financing of the land would also be discussed.
"It has not gone to full council yet but we need to start developing it now because it is such a great concept."
Mr Yule said while Hawke's Bay did not have the same level of homeless people as some other centres, it was definitely an issue.
He said it would be too easy to say there was no problem as most people would not have been confronted by someone who was homeless.
"We don't see it, but we do have people who are homeless."
Mrs Swannell said the support she and her husband had been receiving, and the growing number of "good on you" postings across social media, helped counter the long hours and the realisation there was a long road ahead.
"But we will get there," she said.
She had also spoken to Napier Mayor Bill Dalton about the project and he too praised the family for what they were setting out to achieve.
Being a facility for the region, rather than simply Napier or Hastings, the Swannells are hoping to find a site "in between" like Clive or Awatoto or Pakowhai.
Mrs Swannell said there were some genuinely desperate people out there and, in the past few weeks, they had helped find somewhere to live for six people.
She worked with agencies like Citizens Advice, WINZ and the police but, at the end of the day, what was needed was a well resourced shelter "home" for people until they could be accommodated more permanently.
"What we are trying to do is prevent us having more people at the soup kitchen truck next year," she said.
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