A women’s recovery home in Keizer is undergoing renovation to lodge around 40 new residents.

Simonka Place, run by the Union Gospel Mission of Salem, is undertaking a $3 million expansion to accommodate more women and children in need.

“The rate of women in homelessness and women with children in homelessness is growing,” said Mark Hunter, the facility’s director of community engagement. “The primary goal of this expansion is to create more family space, where women and children can have their own space.”

The renovation, handled by CD Redding Construction, will add more office space, family rooms and a child development center.

“And then we’re doing a lot of structural stuff,” Hunter said. “It is an old building, 65 years old, so we want to make sure that we get new things like HVAC, r

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