There's a caveat. Our organization provides a women's shelter of 20 beds. There are other women's shelters in the city, and the bed count goes up. There are Bryony House and Adsum House. And then again, there's a number of second-stage housing options for women that don't exist for men. I think that some of this disproportion in terms of beds is that the men don't have as many options in terms of the second-stage housing, so they're predominantly being expected to move to market rent or to subsidized units that have long waiting lists. That's part of it.
The two men's shelters total 105 beds. Is that adequate? One of those men's shelters functions on a healthy living model because they have an addiction program. They actually preclude access for people who have active addictions. If someone is drunk or high tonight, they cannot stay at that shelter. That's 30 beds out of their access.
We have a 75-bed shelter and were recording occupancies of 80 last week, but that is a blip. Typically, we don't see a lot of fluctuation from season to season in terms of the occupancy rate, but we do see a difference in people. In the winter, people tend to hunker down in the city they're in, and often closer to home, I find, based on my experience. In the summer, there tends to be a bit of transience. People will want to move, because it's easier to move around in the summer, and maybe look for work or better opportunities. We get the people coming in who are doing that and we get the existing people leaving who are doing that, so it doesn't really create a net change for us.
Would we like to see more of those options for men? Yes. We've talked a lot about that.