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.
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