Case studies for a trending idea The tiny houses making headlines today aren?t always the cool new micro dwellings for middle and upper-middle class downsizers and nomads. In fact, if you set a Google alert for tiny homes, you?ll see that one topic comes up almost daily: tiny houses for the homeless.
Embracing a strategy of "Housing First"?the idea that addressing homelessness starts with giving folks a place to live?U.S. cities like Dallas, Detroit, and Portland already have micro home communities for the homeless up and running. New proposals are emerging in towns big and small all the time. Below, check out an overview of 10 different tiny house villages for the homeless that have arisen over the last decade in the U.S., in order from newest to oldest. The fact that they adopt varying scales, amenities, and operating models suggests that whether tiny houses are a solution to homelessness is a question just as complex as the dilemma of homelessness reduction overall.
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