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The Tiny Homes Working Group is excited to announce a new website for our project: littledenver.wordpress.com. Go there to read all about our work.
Since the last issue of Get Loud, we’ve met with many a fine city politician and leader, many of whom are excited to move forward with a Tiny Home Village in Denver. We’ve been asked to come up with a formal concept plan to present the city, and we’ve been working with Architecture for Humanity and others to try to get one down on paper, while we continue building the first few tiny homes.
We’ve also made friends with some kind folks who help run a village of 27 houses in Oregon called “Opportunity Village Eugene.” Their project has been so successful (and a cheap way to give life saving shelter to homeless folks) that they are in the midst of planning a second city-sanctioned village of Tiny Homes. All of their building plans have been approved by the Oregon Building Department and meet the International Building Code--and they’ve given us
free access to them. They even wrote a book which studies dozens of Tent City and Tiny Home developments across the country called “Tent City Urbanism.” You can find it at tentcityurbanism.com But the most important thing we’re trying to do right now is this--get your input!
We’ve seen tiny home communities work in other cities, but we know that services designed for homeless people are most successful when homeless people themselves are the ones
running the show, because no one understands what the real needs and desires of homeless folks are better than homeless folks themselves. So we want you to tell us what you’d like
to see. Where should the village be? What should it look like? How many houses should there be? Who’s gonna shovel the snow in the winter?
Call 720-940-5291 to get involved,
swing a hammer, weigh in on designs and concepts, and mostly to give Ray a hard time.
Since the last issue of Get Loud, we’ve met with many a fine city politician and leader, many of whom are excited to move forward with a Tiny Home Village in Denver. We’ve been asked to come up with a formal concept plan to present the city, and we’ve been working with Architecture for Humanity and others to try to get one down on paper, while we continue building the first few tiny homes.
We’ve also made friends with some kind folks who help run a village of 27 houses in Oregon called “Opportunity Village Eugene.” Their project has been so successful (and a cheap way to give life saving shelter to homeless folks) that they are in the midst of planning a second city-sanctioned village of Tiny Homes. All of their building plans have been approved by the Oregon Building Department and meet the International Building Code--and they’ve given us
free access to them. They even wrote a book which studies dozens of Tent City and Tiny Home developments across the country called “Tent City Urbanism.” You can find it at tentcityurbanism.com But the most important thing we’re trying to do right now is this--get your input!
We’ve seen tiny home communities work in other cities, but we know that services designed for homeless people are most successful when homeless people themselves are the ones
running the show, because no one understands what the real needs and desires of homeless folks are better than homeless folks themselves. So we want you to tell us what you’d like
to see. Where should the village be? What should it look like? How many houses should there be? Who’s gonna shovel the snow in the winter?
Call 720-940-5291 to get involved,
swing a hammer, weigh in on designs and concepts, and mostly to give Ray a hard time.
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