SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) – A Christian nonprofit agency plans to build emergency housing for single men and their children in Sioux City. The Sioux City Journal reports  that the Gospel Mission has been helping single women and their children. The agency’s executive director, Harold Youtzy Jr., says that in the past 18 months, single men with children have frequented the Gospel Mission. He says those families end up homeless for a “wide variety of reasons.”

The $600,000, U-shaped complex will be built on land east of the Gospel Mission’s main facility. Construction of four apartment-style units is scheduled to start immediately and be finished in six months. Youtzy says half of the money needed already has been raised.