A Calgary group is looking to add more housing for homeless families.

A Calgary homeless shelter is trying to help with the growing demand for space for larger families.

For National Housing Day, Inn From The Cold said its Journey House 2 project will provide three-bedroom suites to families by mid-December. The organization purchased a building with 1,100 square foot units that were all converted to include three bedrooms.

“Developers really aren’t building larger unit sizes at the bottom tier of the rental market in terms of the sort of low income type housing that our clients so desperately need,” said Executive Director Abraham Brown. “Progress has mainly come in the area where the homeless population is the largest which is the singles population, but the fastest growing is families.”

He said the city has been making progress on addressing the needs of its largest homeless population, which is singles. But Brown said the fastest growing homeless population is families. All the clientele occupying the 11 units of the Journey House building will be families.

Inn from the Cold said 76 per cent of all the affordable housing in Calgary is not suitable for families, because they are two-bedroom units or smaller.

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