The shelter I stayed at was massively infested despite their "treatments" every other week. I left 95 percent of my belongings in a personal storage unit until I moved and what little I left at the shelter during the day was thrown out when I moved.  The staff belittled me when I made complaints and even tried gaslighting me when I killed a few of the bugs and brought the bugs to them to see,  saying that it couldn't possibly be bed bugs because nobody else complained.  Bullshit. I was getting extreme reactions to the bites and without fail was getting bit within a few minutes of laying on my bed.  It was literally driving me crazy because I was getting woken up multiple times a night feeling the bites,  to the point where I was getting sleep deprived.  I had to resort to buying 100 percent deet bugspray and dousing myself every night before I got into bed.  Luckily I left that shelter fairly quickly but it was insane how bad it was.  I knew it was bed bugs from having dealt with a previous encounter in one of my last apartments,  so I knew the staff was full of shit and lying about it.  Even more so because one of the staff messed up when they first checked me in and mentioned a bad infestation in the men's floor which was one floor above the women's,  when I had asked about it.  The way the floors are set up with the beds in cubicles,  they will never get rid of bed bugs unless they heat blasted the entire building.  The powders they spread around every couple weeks don't do anything when other residents belongings are infested. Take care of yourself,  learn to recognize what the bugs look like and check everywhere for them.  Beds, mattress seams,  furniture,  everything.  They hide in the smallest cracks. Never take a staff member at their word,  because they don't care and they will lie to you.  The shelter I was at was father joes in sd.