Demand for the Gathering Place has ballooned in the past few months.
The facility offers meals and a 30-bed emergency shelter to vulnerable people experiencing homelessness or struggling with mental health or addictions.
Executive Director, Paul Davies said the numbers related to occupancy rates and length of stay and the number of people who are turned away because they are at the capacity has changed dramatically since the spring.
Davies said since April their occupancy rate has increased from 85 to 95% while the average length of stay in a shelter, only intended for a night or two has increased from 19 to 24.
In the spring they were turning away about 16 people a month because they were full, but in the month of November that skyrocketed to 62 people they had to turn away.