Island County will give $78,136 to the South Whidbey Homeless Coalition this year, which that group will supplement with at least $45,250 of its own, according to documents summarily approved Tuesday by the county’s board of commissioners.

Of the amount given by the county, $29,700 will come from the Homeless Housing Fund and $48,436 from the Affordable Housing Fund.

The Homeless Housing Fund consists of money obtained through three surcharges assessed when documents are officially recorded.

This year’s budget is virtually double that of last year, according to Faith Wilder, president of the the coalition’s board of directors.

The money will be used to to provide temporary housing to homeless individuals and families, provide supportive services to those people, provide rental assistance to those moving out of temporary housing, building an additional unit at the House of Hope in Langley and collecting homelessness data, according to funding documents.

Whidbey’s south end now has about three times the number of homeless people it did last year, according to an annual survey the county made last month.

It had 28 in 2015.

The change is due to both actual growth in homelessness and changes in count procedure, Wilder said.