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Showing posts with label T = Tiny Houses. Show all posts
Showing posts with label T = Tiny Houses. Show all posts

Monday, September 17, 2018

Blogging Alphabetically, T=Tiny Houses

We've all seen ads on TV about tiny houses, people living simply, choosing that in order to travel...but, I'm talking about a different type of tiny houses.  Several articles have indicted perhaps the first village for tiny houses to house the homeless was in Oregon, a place called Dignity Village.  Portland City fathers were continually raiding, moving and breaking up various tent cities in the the downtown area; but in a matter of days a new tent city would take it place.  Homelessness was on the rise and shelters simply couldn't keep up.

A solution came about when city fathers and homeless people started working together (2001).  Private donations,and volunteers without government financing built a village of tiny houses to house 65 residence on donated land.  Mark Lakeman was the Architect.

The theory was multi-layered.  House the homeless, lessen environmental strains on the community. Statistics indicated that houses were becoming larger and larger, and people were spread farther apart; therefore not knowing or caring about neighbors.  From 1950--2012 the average square footage of a family rose from from 983 to 2500.

This village has been successfully run by self government of the residence who live there without oversite.  There are other similar communities around the country, some modeled after this village...some with local backing and or some governmental funds. 

I'm not aware of any such villages in my area.  In my google research for this post, it seems many of these little villages of tiny homes dot the map in Oregon, Washington, California, and Colorado.  I plan to do some follow up about the possibility of one in Akron, Ohio; so stayed tuned.

**A good deal of the info above was gleaned from an article titled, "Solution to Homelessness" by Georgia Perry.  Credit for the above picture goes to her as well.

Please turn on your sound and watch this video for additional information about tiny houses.



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