Over the last few years, fascination with tiny homes has grown beyond cutesy love-ins for a lifestyle akin to living in a clothes closet. (And along with our own cutesy love-in posts, we’ve also managed to post stories from those warning others to try the living before unconditionally loving!1)
The use of tiny homes is proving to be valuable as transitional housing for people who experience homelessness, offering them the privacy and security and safety that they don’t find in shelters.
However, people who experience homelessness also value a sense of community and the support of sympathetic homeless friends, something that can be found in the precarious and uncertain life of tent encampments, as well as shelters themselves.
And it’s turning out that tiny homes can provide that sense of community, too, when they are built in communities. The following article describes some of the benefits of a tiny home community, in spite of its somewhat misleading headline. Read/watch more at WFMZ-TV NEWS: Homeless Solution: One Tiny Home [Community] At A Time
Footnotes
- Try: Cozy And Bearable: Is There A Just-Right Tiny Home For You, Goldilocks?
