Rendering of a #TinyHomes concept with a definite design nod to solar panel facing / yield. Although I wonder a little about the pitch angle / latitude.
Advocates for the unhoused, police, and healthcare providers all agree that the best thing we can do to address homelessness is provide housing and services.
Last night the City Council did both when it unanimously approved plans to construct a Navigation Center on a city-owned, undeveloped lot in an industrial area of Newbury Park.
The facility will feature 30 tiny homes with room for up to 20 additional units and on-site services. This center is part of the city's ongoing efforts to address homelessness. It's a big step in improving everyone's lives.
With an aggressive construction schedule, we hope to have this facility occupied late this year.
Australia's coastal cities and surrounding hinterlands have long been popular with tourists, sea-changers and retirees. But they have a darker side. In the early morning you will often find car parks crowded with cars, vans, caravans and even tents, where refugees from the housing crisis have spent the night.
People of all ages, including families with children, are cooking breakfast, using the cold-water showers and packing up for another day, always trying to keep one step ahead of council officers or police. These unhoused people don't conform to homeless stereotypes. Many have jobs and children in school and no serious mental or physical health problems. They simply cannot find an affordable home to rent, or have lost or are unable to buy a home of their own.
The #NovaScotia government, #Halifax ( #HRM ), and two private developers will build a rent-geared-to-income tiny home community in Lower #Sackville, with residents moving in the autumn of 2024.
City officials had planned to install 33 tiny homes at the Multi-Service Center, Long Beach's hub for homeless services, but that idea has been scrapped.
there's a lot in this article, from a tiny home community for unhoused veterans through local funding and revised state building codes to placing the vets community integrated with a new high end development.
A lot, and a lot that is very good!
City must find new site for long-planned tiny homes shelter (lbpost.com)
City officials had planned to install 33 tiny homes at the Multi-Service Center, Long Beach's hub for homeless services, but that idea has been scrapped.