The building at 811 Myrtle Street in Fort Collins looks like a normal, small house on the outside. But inside, there are eight suites, each with its own private half bathroom. There’s also a flex space for larger families, two common spaces, a community kitchen, and a backyard.
“It’s quite roomy,” Annette Zacharias, director of the nonprofit Family Housing Network, said. “I had a volunteer who told me that this feels like a really cute little Hampton Inn.”
This space is going to be a free transitional housing shelter that’s opening in the fall, called the Myrtle House. Zacharias said this will double their capacity to serve unhoused families.
“We were turning away families like crazy. A year ago in September we turned away 24 families, we turned away another 30 in November,” she said. “We were bursting at the seams and we just kept hearing more and more families calling and needing help.”…