MARYSVILLE — The city’s nascent program to provide housing for homeless people is likely to grow.

The Marysville City Council is taking up a measure Monday that would designate two city-owned houses as temporary homes for people who have been homeless.

The city opened its first such house in April, and it has been housing three formerly homeless men there ever since.

The second such house will also be home to three men, while the third will hold a family, said Gloria Hirashima, the city’s chief administrative officer.

Marysville has been taking a more low-key approach than other cities.

Everett, for example, is working toward building a 70-unit apartment building with on-site social services for that city’s most chronically homeless people.

By contrast, Marysville is turning city-owned properties into temporary housing.

The houses are located in and around downtown Marysville, but the city isn’t publicizing their exact location to preserve the residents’ privacy.

“All three guys are making progress in their individual programs,” said Dan Hazen, the pastor at Allen Creek Community Church.

“We’re all looking at it as a really great success,” Hazen said.

The tenants of the first house used to stay in the Everett Gospel Mission. The mission selected the men for the program and provides some access to treatment for whatever issues the residents have.

In Marysville, Allen Creek Community Church has mustered its members to contribute time and fellowship to the men — as Hazen earlier described it, being their neighbors.

Hazen also rallied other church communities to donate furnishings and supplies.

The expectation is to have a similar arrangement for the next two houses, Hirashima said.

The residents of the two new houses are expected to move in by Oct. 1, she said.

All three locations are temporary because road-widening projects a few years from now will require the houses to be demolished.

The city will work with the church community and the mission to find new homes for the residents.

“We obviously won’t leave anybody stranded,” Hirashima said.

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